OCTAVIUS HOWELL - 11 yo - Miami-Dade FL

Miami-Dade police have issued a plea to the public to help find a missing 11-year-old child. Octavius Howell, just shy of 5-foot tall and 80 pounds, was last seen
Friday at the Madison Middle School at NW 10th Avenue and NW 90th
Street. He was wearing a red polo shirt and khaki pants.


People with information are asked to contacted Miami Detective
Javier Soto at the Miami-Dade Police Special Victims Bureau's Missing
Persons Unit, 305-418-7201 or 305-476-5423. The bureau issued a photo of the boy to accompany its plea. (Poster's Note: So, why didn't you publish it???)






Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/05/2051997/police-ask-public-to-help-find.html#ixzz1D5yUviDi

http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2011/02/05/help-find-11-yo-boy-octavius-howell/

Help find Octavius Howell

by Karoli on February 5, 2011 · View Comments


-Ann Reid:

Police in Miami (Miami-Dade County) are asking for the
public’s help finding a missing child. If you’re in South Florida and
have seen him, please contact police. His name is Octavius Howell and
he’s just 11 years old. A little national media exposure wouldn’t be a
bad thing, either.

From the Herald:
Octavius Howell, just shy of 5-foot tall and 80 pounds, was last
seen Friday at the Madison Middle School at NW 10th Avenue and NW 90th
Street.
He was wearing a red polo shirt and khaki pants.
People with information are asked to contacted Miami Detective
Javier Soto at the Miami-Dade Police Special Victims Bureau’s Missing
Persons Unit, 305-418-7201 or 305-476-5423.
The bureau issued a photo of the boy to accompany its plea.

As Joy-Ann notes, black missing children do not get the kind of
national media attention that white missing children do. Witness the
missing persons case of Phylicia Barnes, a 17-year old honor student from North Carolina who went missing in Maryland while visiting family.

Phylicia, who turned 17 on January 12, went missing on
December 28, while visiting her college-age half-sister, 28, in
Baltimore for the holidays. According to police, she had gone out at
around 1:30 p.m. to grab a bite to eat and possibly get a hair cut.
Authorities have stated they believe she was abducted. Phylicia’s
cell phone is off, she hasn’t used her debit card, and she has not
updated her Facebook page, since her disappearance.
Phylicia is an honor student at a charter school and was set to graduate a year early due to her stellar academic record.

Her case has gotten almost no national exposure either. If you can
blog this, or pass the word around (along with the picture), I’m sure
Octavius’ parents would be grateful. Phylicia’s too.

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