UPDATE: (WBAP/KLIF)- An 11-year-old Dallas boy has been found alive after being missing for nearly 36 hours.
Dallas Police say Traveon Griffin was found at a home on Winecup Ridge Dr., a few streets over from where he was last seen when he ran away from home.
Police say he knows a kid who lives at this home, but they’re not sure if he was helping to hide him or not.
Griffin was taken out of the home on a stretcher but his condition has not yet been released. Officers and volunteers had been searching his neighborhood and surrounding areas after police say Griffin left his home only wear shorts and socks with weather below freezing.
ORIGINAL Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police are asking for the public’s help in the search 11-year old Traveon Griffin who went missing around midnight Thursday from a neighborhood northeast of Joe Pool Lake and near Fox Hollow Park. He was last seen wearing only black shorts and white socks.
Traveon is described as an 11-year-old black male. He is 4-foot-11 and weighs 72 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Because of the frigid temperatures across the region, Traveon’s status has been listed at “critical.”
Dallas Police spokesman Mitchell Warren talked to reporters late last night about the search saying that the department is currently using a helicopter, drones as well as a K-9 officer, mounted patrol, and officers are going door to door searching for Traveon.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police department at 911 or 214-671-4268. Refer to case number 011748-2021.
The boy’s parents circulated fliers of Traveon around the neighborhood. According to WFAA, they are distraught and not ready to talk publicly.
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