Blood was found in the abandoned car of a 20-year-old Virginia father who has been missing for a week. His mother says the young man vanished a few days before Christmas, after he left the house and said he would be back in five to ten minutes for a planned date. NBC’s Valerie Castro reports.
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Family found car, why police can’t find missing person car, police should give there pay check to Family, because Family is doing police job
He has kind eyes, the family are doing the polices job as usual. I hope he turns up in hospital safe!
Right before Christmas, didn’t say where he was going but that he would be back in 10 minutes for dinner, was he meeting strangers from marketplace or craigslist to buy gifts and got robbed instead, I wonder
Good point on the Craigslist
🕊 I hope he is found unharmed🕊
Because of how violent and bigoted they are, my first thought is that a MAGAt got him.
🙏🏽 Hoping for this young man’ recovery.
I hope it wasn’t robbery, that he wasn’t plannin g to get a gift for his date from an unknown seller. 🤦🏽♀️
Since VA police dropped the missing persons ball 🧐, hopefully they’ll be aggressive with searching local camera surveillance and searching his phone, bank account, and social media apps for recent communications with associates and phone pings. It def sounds like his quick run turned into bad business… likely by someone he was intentionally meeting up with. 😔
🙏🏽 Expose it Lord!
Try his baby’s mama’s family they should be on the top of the suspect list. And go from there.
Ohmygod. Please help find this dad!!! We need a miracle for this family!! For the love of God!!!
He dead… that just sounds bad. Sounds like he was meeting someone maybe for five minutes but then got jumped and taken away…. probably for some money 🙄 😢 so sorry
Gosh he looks 15/16
The Dark Lord- never trust him.
He looks like such a baby himself. Hoping he’s found safe and sound
Because he is 20 is only two years even being a ‘legal’ adult. Not even old enough to drink or buy cigarettes
He actually looks nothing like a baby.
You might be addicted to hyperbolic euphemisms and gross exaggeration.
@WHS -waterfox you don’t have any friends right?
@MadgeMackles
Wrong.
Anyway, back to you not understanding what a baby looks like:
What’s with that? What’s wrong with you?
obviously everyone knows him as a cart plug, he for sure got set up and robbed gone wrong
The family has to do the investigation theirselves. Sad.
*themselves*
Praying for his safe return 🙏
I hope for his safely return.
*safe return*
These stories never end & each one deeply hurts me & breaks my heart to pieces
(1) Ran away from responsibility, being a dad and only 20 years old.🤔 … (2) Got wacked by criminals. Being a dude who knocked up a girl and broke her, I expect him to to dive into uncharted waters and get involved with criminals.
why does it take so long to say his name?
Set up robbery and murder? As we enter our third world country status. People who bring their criminal culture with them, at least he left the government stipend to carry on for him
What are you talking about. The missing individual could be a U.S. citizen.
That’s so heartbreaking and scary! Close to home, but a blood trail after finding lots in the car. I hope a huge search party is searching left and right in those woods and around to help them! Im so so so so so sorry for the family! Many PRAYERS for a return home!!! ✝✝
I hate to be the one to say this, but if it was a 20 year old blond blue eyed girl, there would be a huge search party, dogs, helicopters and news reporters everywhere.
@Catherine Lephew you’re right on that! What a sick world! 😥😥😥.
Five to ten minutes sounds like a drug deal, buying some pot. Otherwise, why not say where you’re going?
Prayer’s for the family 🙏
Thats how it works with everyone at that age hes 20 years old. The cops dont send out Amber alerts or do mass searches that quick.
Knowing it was a Mexican you can assume it was a live affair… they breed em like employees seeking salvation in a country where they slaughter each other more and more… from fentanyl to road rages with no license or insurance….
They put him on a t-shirt
Hope they find him💜
They call it HOODBRIDGE for a reason.
Man please don’t say 20 Year old father. I thought his father has been lost for 20 years, rather say a Young Father Ora young man.
Giving out the age of the missing person helps people know who they’re looking for, in case they see him.
I wasn’t being serious. It’s just weird because a 20 year old person is still very young.
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It’s the south hes a minority they probably killed him for being non white….
Let’s hope so. And if that’s the case let’s hope it keeps happening. Seems to be the only way to cut down on crime and make everybody’s life easier
@Casey Schryber ???
Bad cut—this young man deserves the entire segment
Police—always assume the worst and work from that because of it is the case, you do not have time to wait, hoping they are gone if their own accord.
Missing equals dead or in danger until proven otherwise.
Beyond sad ! Prayers for him and his family . Prayers he is found safe !
He sounds like a moron. Who’s a parent at 20 besides poor and stupid people
What can we do as locals to help?
🙏💚🕊
I thought it said 20 year old virgin loletf
Prayers for him and the family.
Unbelievable….
This country GETS EVIL AND MORE EVIL BY THE DAY. ONLY THING THAT’S GONNA QUELL THIS COULD IS THE COMING GREAT TRIBULATION. MY PRAYERS TO THIS YOUNG MAN’S FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR Any of hope to finding him.🙏🏻🥺🔥🤔 We are definitely gonna get brought DOWN.
That dude looks around 12 years old.
Unnecessary comment
Ok, and?
The pressure to deliver and provide. I hope he’s fine and no silly decisions were made.
Gang activity?
oh please, they seem like they do gang stuff
Drug deal gone bad?
Have police tried tracking his trail of blood with a K-9?
Probably
Praying for a safe return! My goodness all of these missing children! God be with these precious children as they all have mothers like myself!
Unfortunately we don’t have enough police officers to help. If you call 911, you might get answering machine instead live person in Houston, Texas. Blue cities never supports police officers and want to defund them so who want to be a cop this days.
There’s groups of people out there who carjack back and forth all over America killing and seeking drugs.
The police should know that the first 48 hrs are the most important when someone is missing
Thanks, captain obvious. 🙄
Sad 😞 I hope they find him well 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. Law Enforcements Need To Take All Reports of Missing Persons Serious. Regardless of the Missing Persons Age. So Many Agencies Have Misjudged and Decided To Wait On Time. Leaving So Many Families Devastated.
Law enforcement and that Dispatcher FAILED this family. Failure to listen or care.
May God give this family hope, peace and comfort.
I blame white supremacy
He went to go buy drugs and was killed
Leaving the house for 5 to 10 min sounds like a drug deal gone bad prayers up 🙏
Father? He’s like 12. You mean person who got another teen pregnant. Hopefully you return to wherever and get to be an actual father.
He is 20, did you not read the title.
Delete your disrespectful, judgmental comment.
Always good to hear from semi-illiterate jag offs. 👍
This is so disrespectful he is a great father he would be here if he could he cares so much abt Sheila and his daughter they are a great family
Young Single Mother. Good luck
Noticed who found the car, the family not the police. Great police work there guys.
Why do Hispanics have so many kids and so young? It’s gross
Wtf the family found his car not the police!? I’m so sick of the inconvenience in our police departments.
Oh God, this is heartbreaking.🙏🏼
GOING TO DO AM I THE ONLY ONE ASKING WHY ARE ALL OF THESE KIDS HAVING KIDS 20 YEARS OLD WITH A KID THIS IS 2022 NOT 1990 PARENTS STOP LETTING YOUR KIDS HAVE KIDS 🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑
If there was blood leading into the woods wouldn’t it continue? Why aren’t they following the blood into the woods? I sure hope he is found tho.
Sure he had his secrets may have killed him
The girlfriend knows what happened
Look at those crocodile tears
@Kurosaki MikathatS so disrespectful my sister is very worried for him and is trying her hardest looking for him 24/7 if she knew something she would speak up she isn’t dumb
@Kurosaki Mikadont act like u know her
I pray for his safe return. My thoughts and prayers goes out to his family and girlfriend.
Suspicious that he didn’t mention where he was going due to possible drug run for marijuana. Drug deal gone bad/robbery possible. Vanishings are usually inside jobs.
Pretty sure ge got out to help someone and they did him harm.
“They weren’t taking us seriously. They thought it was just a missing person.” Umm yea. The fact that she is so sure its more serious makes me suspicious of her. BTW that was before they found the blood two days later.
Possibly a set up? Not to jump to conclusions.. but maybe could have met up with a girl and was set up to be robbed..
Maybe check if he uses OfferUp or dating app. Prayers to the family.
what do you expect from Virginia, the worst place to live in
Anyone thinking my man skipped town?
Dude said he buying some milk. Bought some ketchup and splattered it on the floor…yea hes “dead”
🙏🙏🙏
Is it his blood? It’s odd he’d be driving but there’s a bunch of blood in the back of the car
20 year old father wtf
Police never take things seriously wasting valuable time. It’s a shame they don’t even want to do their jobs.
praying for this family – and these individuals who took them as a joke! Should be ashame!
The area the police found this young man car is gang area… More than likely this young man gotten mix up in the local gangsters scene and gotten murder by the idiots. That whole area from the 7-11 down Rt one is very dangerous. Lots of gang activities at night..
Praying for the families
Something seems odd…
That’s sad
A baby himself, my prayers to the family and that he returns safely home.
They never seem to tell us what these people do for a living. With a “wife” and child where did he get his income? It could be relevant.
God please send this man home. Let him be safe and sound. His little girl needs him! Blessed Be!
So sad 😢
Prayers for him to be found safe 🙏
This is how the police responded when my roommate disappeared in 1983. I reported her missing when she did not come home that evening but the police would not take the report because she was over 21 and could be anywhere she wanted. They would not take a report for 2 days. Her remains were not found for 32 years, at which time they changed her disappearance from missing person to a murder investigation. I has been 38 1/2 years since she was murdered, her killer is still free.
U.S. Is becoming a 3rd world
Why no one suspects it to be a wild animal like a bear?
Bless this father! That he returns safely to his family! Bless his family!
All pigs a lazy and incompetent to begun with but when it comes to helping minorities they are criminally negligent
My prayers are with you and your family I’m so sorry I hope you find your son safe and OK I’m praying right now God be with all of you and be with him watch over him and keep him safe put your arms around him Jesus and guide him safely home and she’s his name I pray him
Always look closely at the husband’s, boyfriends , girlfriends or wives. Too many times we see them on the news talking about how they miss their partner and they’re the ones directly involved.
🙏🧡 Prayers for locating him, information, bless this family.
The evidence is clear…He’s dead everyone just needs to accept that & stop stressing themselves out hoping he’s alive. When you find a missing persons car next to the woods filled with blood it’s pretty obvious he was killed. It doesn’t take a detective or genius to put 2 and 2 together.
Oh how awful…..my heart aches for all these loved ones!