HASANNI CAMPBELL - 5 yo with CP (2009) - Oakland CA

Poster's Note: Some sources are spelling his name with one "s" and two n's. Others have it the way the original story was posted one s and one n. I have taken what the majority are now using, two s's.

The mysterious disappearance of a young boy with cerebral palsy Monday
afternoon spurred Oakland police to a desperate search in the hopes of
finding his whereabouts, according to authorities.More than a
dozen officers fanned out in the area around College Avenue and Harwood
in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood searching for 5-year-old Hasani
Campbell.

The Alameda County Sheriff's rescue team joined the search
with dogs.Police said they received a call for help at about 4
p.m. from the boy's father. He told officers he drove his son to Shuz
of Rockridge, a shoe store, where the boy's mother works so he could
leave the child in her care.Police said the father left the boy
in a BMW in the back lot of the store while he walked around to the
front, and went through the store the back door. He told police he then
realized his son was gone."He frantically searched the
neighborhood asking people if they've seen his son and nobody can find
him," said Sgt. Rich Vierra of the Oakland Police Department.Police say Hasani couldn't have gone far on his own because he suffers from cerebral palsy and wears braces on both legs.Investigators say they fear he was either kidnapped or is frightened and hiding somewhere.Vierra
said, "Our worst fear is that he's gone somewhere, he's lost,
frightened, hurt himself. We want to find him before anything like that
happens."They described him as African-American, small for his
age, 3 feet tall and weighing 40 pounds. He has short black hair and
brown eyes and was wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweat pants.Patrons
at the nearby Barclay's Restaurant and Pub said they were asked by
police not to leave the establishment for about 30 minutes when the
canine search got under way.Katie Decarlo said, "For a period of
time, they didn't want anyone leaving any of the businesses because
that would have thrown off the scent."Police are asking people
in the area to check their backyards and basements for any sign of
Hasani. "They can walk up to him, talk to him, call 911. Hopefully
reunite him with his family."Investigators are interviewing
Hasani's parents. Police tell us they're treating the father's BMW as a
possible crime scene in case the boy was kidnapped. The BMW was towed
away to a police yard so evidence technicians can comb through it for
clues.As of 10:30 p.m., Hasani had not been found.

More than a dozen police
continue to search this morning for a missing boy with cerebral palsy
who was last seen in Oakland Monday afternoon.
Five-year-old
Hassani Campbell of Fremont was reported missing from the 6000 block of
College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m., according to the Oakland police
youth services unit.Witnesses told police Campbell was in Oakland with a family friend, who was dropping off another child to Campbell's aunt. Campbell
was left in the car, a newer model BMW, while the man took the other
child into the aunt's home. The boy, who wears braces on both legs, was
gone when the man returned, witnesses said. TV footage shot last night
showed the car being towed.The shopping district in the area of
College and Harwood avenues, has been closed on and off during the
search, which last night included search dogs and a helicopter.The
boy is described as light-skinned African-American, standing 3 feet
tall and weighing about 40 pounds. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt and
gray sweatpants the last time he was seen.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 510-238-3641.

Oakland police are now asking the public for help in finding a missing disabled child.

Police say the boy uses leg braces to walk. He was reported missing
Monday afternoon in the 6000 block of College Avenue. 5-year-old Hasani
Campbell of Fremont has cerebral palsy.
It is a baffling and worrisome case. Police officers have been busily
searching various locations including the business along College Avenue
for signs of Campbell. Police say that around 4:15 Monday
afternoon Campbell disappeared as a friend was dropping him off at a
Rockridge shoe store, where Campbell's aunt works a night shift. The
boy was reportedly left in a car parked on a side street while the
driver went to the front of the store intending to walk through the
store to open the back door. When the driver went back to the car Campbell was gone. Police blocked off a two-block area Monday night and searched for the
boy using officer, police dogs and helictopers. They have still found
no sign of him. Businesses in the area have heard about what happened and some of the shopkeepers are worried. "One of the police cars brought a dog and the dog was barking a lot.
So, I don't what that meant, what it tells them. But anyway, we've been
watching ever since," said Marikan Rinzen. Police are asking
people to keep watching for signs of Hassani Campbell. The boy is
described as a black male, three feet tall and weighing around 40
pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweat pants,
along with leg braces with a spiderman design. Police have not said much regarding any leads they may be following.

The
Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the search for a missing
five-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy, police and FBI sources said.Hassani
Campbell of Fremont was reported missing in the Rockridge District
around 4:15 p.m. Monday, according to the Oakland police youth services
unit.Campbell lives in Fremont with his sister, his aunt and her
fiance, police said. His birth parents live in San Francisco. Police
declined to say this morning why Campbell does not live with them.Campbell
apparently went missing while the fiance dropped his sister off with
the aunt at a shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue, police
said. They did not name the boy's guardians.The fiance told
police he left Campbell in the car, a newer model BMW, while he took
the sister inside. The boy, who wears braces on both legs, was gone
when the man returned, witnesses said. Police confiscated the
BMW and forensic investigators were examining it for evidence this
morning. The aunt and fiance are cooperating with investigators, police
said, and the boy is being treated as a missing person at risk.The
shopping district in the area of College and Harwood avenues was closed
temporarily during last night's search, which included search dogs and
a helicopter.The boy is described as a light-skinned
African-American, 3 feet tall and weighing about 40 pounds. He was
wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray sweatpants the
last time he was seen.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 510-238-3641.

The FBI
and police on Tuesday searched the Fremont home of a 5-year-old
disabled boy who vanished from behind a Rockridge district shoe store
Monday afternoon, and authorities took the boy's younger sister into
protective custody Tuesday. Louis Ross, the child's foster
father, said he left the boy, Hassani Campbell, outside his newer-model
BMW in the back parking lot of Shuz, a shoe store in the 6000 block of
College Avenue, about 4:15 p.m. He was there to drop the boy's
1-year-old sister off with his fiance, Jennifer Campbell, the boy's
aunt and foster mother, police said. Campbell manages the store.When Ross returned, the boy was gone, police said. Authorities confiscated the BMW for evidence.John Riker, owner of Shuz, called Campbell a "wonderful foster mother." "I can tell when she talks about her kids, she's a very devoted mother," he said. "She's hysterical right now."Some Rockridge residents and store employees said they have doubts about Ross' story."There
are just too many questions," said Paullet Barnes, who works at a
Rockridge art gallery. Barnes said the parking lot is too out of the
way for a random kidnapper looking to snatch a child.The boy has
lived with Ross, 38, and Campbell, 30, in Fremont since December
because his 25-year-old biological mother, who lives in San Francisco,
has drug and health problems, authorities said. Police have not spoken
to the boy's father, who also lives in San Francisco. FBI
agents searched the couple's home in the 5900 block of Roxie Terrace
and shooed away a reporter who knocked at the door. "We are working
something (here)," an agent said.Authorities said the couple,
who reportedly are taking legal steps to adopt the boy, hired a lawyer
Tuesday. The boy's 1-year-old sister was taken into protective custody
Tuesday, authorities said.Hassani, who will be a first-grader at
Leitch Elementary School in Fremont, has cerebral palsy, wears braces
on his legs and has trouble walking. Cerebral palsy is a neurological
disorder that affects body movement and muscle coordination, according
to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.Police
and police dogs canvassed the Rockridge area Monday night, and several
dozen police — in cars, on bicycles and on foot — continued the search
Tuesday. Investigators also interviewed registered sex offenders living
in the area, a routine procedure when a child disappears. Sherri
Miller, who was distributing 1,000 fliers she printed at her San
Leandro print shop Tuesday, said she does not think the boy could have
gone far on foot. "If the boy did wander off, he would have had a hard
time, and (someone) would have seen him," she said. Miller said her mother has cerebral palsy. Sean
Fahey, who lives in an apartment in the same building as the Shuz
store, said he saw Campbell sobbing after the boy went missing. "She
was really scared," he said. Sgt. Raymond Backman, a spokesman
for the Oakland Police Department, said Ross and Campbell have been
cooperative but could be brought in for additional questioning. Backman
declined to comment on whether the couple had been given or had been
asked to take a polygraph test. The boy is described as a
light-skinned African-American, with short black hair and brown eyes.
He is 3 feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. He was wearing a gray
sweatshirt and gray sweatpants the last time he was seen. Anyone with
information can call police at 510-238-3641.

Police
and FBI agents with search dogs scoured the Fremont home Tuesday
evening of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who reportedly
disappeared from outside a store in Oakland's Rockridge district.



The
investigators, who included Oakland police and members of the FBI's
evidence response team, were looking through the home on Roxie Terrace
for evidence in the disappearance of Hasanni Campbell. The home belongs
to Hasanni's foster father, Louis Ross, 38, and his fiancee, Jennifer
Campbell, 33, public records show.
Ross told police that the boy disappeared about 4:15 p.m. Monday
from Ross' BMW, which was parked on a driveway on Harwood Avenue off
College Avenue in Oakland. The boy vanished when Ross walked around the
corner to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store on the 6000 block of College
where Campbell works, Ross told police.
Campbell is the boy's aunt, authorities said.
Ross told police that he had been preparing to drop Hasanni off and had gone to unlock a door to the store, authorities said.
Police with search-and-rescue dogs combed the Rockridge area well
into Monday evening but couldn't find the boy. The BMW was towed as
evidence.
Authorities brought the search dogs to the Fremont home Tuesday evening. Authorities would not say what they were looking for.
Hasanni's godmother, Regina Douglas of San Francisco, said she
doubted that Ross and Campbell were responsible for the boy's
disappearance.
"If I knew what happened to Hasanni, we wouldn't be having this conversation," Douglas said.
Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman, interim Chief Howard Jordan's chief
of staff, said, "We are keeping all investigative leads open at this
time. We cannot discount any possibility at this point in the
investigation."
Police said they have interviewed Hasanni's biological parents, who live separately in San Francisco.
Shoe-store owner John Riker told reporters that Campbell is a
devoted foster mother to Hasanni and his year-old sister. "When she
talks about the kids, she beams," Riker said.
Flyers with Hasanni's picture were posted in stores along College
Avenue on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, police took pictures inside the
shoe store and, at one point, checked for clues on the roof.
Investigators said they doubted Hasanni could have gone far if he
left the car by himself. He uses leg braces and has difficulty walking,
they said.
Cerebral palsy is an incurable, sometimes disabling ailment that
affects about 1 in 1,000 infants. Its effects range from mild stiffness
and lack of coordination in the legs, arms or hands, to near complete
inability to control movements and speech.
Douglas described Hasanni as a "very gentle, mild and loving boy."
Hasanni is African American, with a light complexion, brown hair
and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was
last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Relatives of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy pleaded for his safe
return today as police and the FBI wrapped up a search of his Fremont
home.
Oakland police and members of the FBI's evidence response team left the Roxie
Terrace home of Hasanni Campbell at about 1 a.m. today after searching
the property for several hours, said FBI Special Agent Joseph Schadler,
spokesman for the agency in San Francisco.
Schadler would not say what investigators were looking for and what
they may have seized from the home in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood.
Authorities arrived at the home Tuesday evening with search dogs. The
home belongs to Hasanni's foster father, Louis Ross, 38, and his
fiancée, Jennifer Campbell, 33, public records show.
Ross told police that the boy disappeared about 4:15 p.m. Monday
from Ross' BMW, which was parked on a driveway on Harwood Avenue off
College Avenue in Oakland. The boy vanished when Ross walked around the
corner to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store on the 6000 block of College
where Campbell works, Ross told police.
Campbell is the boy's aunt. She became Hasanni's legal guardian
after his mother, Shemika Campbell, who is also disabled, could not
take care of him, relatives said.
"I would like my grandson back," said Pamela Clark, 62, of San
Francisco, who is Shemika and Jennifer Campbell's mother. "I just hope
this works out."
Clark and she doubted Ross or Jennifer Campbell were responsible for the boy's disappearance.
"I don't think the family's involved at all," Clark said.
Regina Douglas of San Francisco, Hasanni's godmother, agreed.
"There is no custody dispute," she said. "Everyone is satisfied.
Everyone was comfortable with the arrangements."
Douglas said her message was simple: "Return our child to the loving environment he was already living in."
The investigation jarred residents on quiet Roxie Terrace, where
Ross and Campbell moved in less than a year ago and kept to themselves,
neighbors said.
"We don't see them outside very much," said Ben Siu, adding, "I hope they find the boy."

The search for a boy with cerebral palsy reported missing by his family on
Monday has moved this morning to a Fremont park, according to police
sources.There are reportedly dozens of FBI agents and police at
Karl Nordvik Park, 5850 Commerce Drive, in Fremont. They've been there
since about 8 a.m., according to officers at the scene and are also
searching a trail across the street for the park, which the boy has
visited.The FBI and police on Tuesday searched the Fremont home
of 5-year-old Hassani Campbell, who his caregivers say vanished from
behind a Rockridge district shoe store Monday afternoon. However, there
haven't been any witnesses who saw the boy that day, police said.
Authorities said the last time a witness saw the boy at the store was
Aug. 6.The boy's 1-year-old sister was taken into protective custody Tuesday. Louis
Ross, the child's foster father, said he left the boy, who wears leg
braces and has trouble getting around, outside his newer-model BMW in
the back parking lot of Shuz, a shoe store in the 6000 block of College
Avenue, about 4:15 p.m. He said he was there to drop the boy's sister
off with his fiance, Jennifer Campbell, the boy's aunt and foster
mother, police said. Campbell manages the store.When Ross returned, he said the boy was gone, police said. Authorities confiscated the BMW for evidence.John Riker, owner of Shuz, called Campbell a "wonderful foster mother." I can tell when she talks about her kids, she's a very devoted mother," he said. "She's hysterical right now."Some Rockridge residents and store employees said they have doubts about Ross' story."There
are just too many questions," said Paullet Barnes, who works at a
Rockridge art gallery. Barnes said the parking lot is too out of the
way for a random kidnapper looking to snatch a child.The boy has
lived with Ross, 38, and Campbell, 30, in Fremont since December
because his 25-year-old biological mother, who lives in San Francisco,
has drug and health problems, authorities said. Police have not spoken
to the boy's father, who also lives in San Francisco. FBI
agents searched the couple's home in the 5900 block of Roxie Terrace
and shooed away a reporter who knocked at the door. "We are working
something (here)," an agent said.Authorities said the couple,
who reportedly are taking legal steps to adopt the boy, hired a lawyer
Tuesday. The boy's 1-year-old sister was taken into protective custody
Tuesday, authorities said.Hassani is set to start first-grade at Leitch Elementary School in Fremont.Police
and police dogs canvassed the Rockridge area Monday night, and several
dozen police — in cars, on bicycles and on foot — continued the search
Tuesday. Investigators also interviewed registered sex offenders living
in the area, a routine procedure when a child disappears. Sherri
Miller, who was distributing 1,000 fliers she printed at her San
Leandro print shop Tuesday, said she does not think the boy could have
gone far on foot. "If the boy did wander off, he would have had a hard
time, and (someone) would have seen him," she said. Miller said her
mother has cerebral palsy. Sean Fahey, who lives in an
apartment in the same building as the Shuz store, said he saw Campbell
sobbing after the boy went missing. "She was really scared," he said. Sgt.
Raymond Backman, a spokesman for the Oakland Police Department, said
Ross and Campbell have been cooperative but could be brought in for
additional questioning. Backman declined to comment on whether the
couple had been given or had been asked to take a polygraph test. The
boy is described as a light-skinned African-American, with short black
hair and brown eyes. He is 3 feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. He
was wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray sweatpants the last time he was
seen. Anyone with information can call police at 510-238-3641.

Well-known
civil rights attorney John Burris said this afternoon that one of the
caretakers for a missing 5-year-old Fremont boy with cerebral palsy
will take a polygraph test, while the other will not because she is six
months pregnant.In speaking with an Oakland Tribune reporter,
Burris said he has given advice to Fremont couple Jennifer Campbell and
Louis Ross, but has not been retained as their personal attorney."I
let them know what legal rights they have, advising to help them
understand what their rights are, and more importantly, encouraged them
to be cooperative with the police, and to understand the job of the
police, Burris said."It might appear to be rough, but at the end
of the day, the police are trying to find the kid. Until they rule the
family out, they're going to be subjects of investigation, because they
have to be." Burris' comments came a few hours after Fremont
police and Alameda County search and rescue teams combed a Fremont park
and its surrounding area in connection with the hunt for Hassani
Campbell.Police said nothing of significance turned up during the search, which was a precautionary investigative procedure.Oakland
police today said they plan to go back into the Rockridge neighborhood
— where the boy's caregivers say he was last seen — to try contacting
residents and others nearby whom police were unable to contact in
previous searches.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has also joined the
search. The center has experience dealing with thousands of missing
child cases."They're here to advise us, make sure we're covering
all the bases and not missing anything," Oakland police Lt. Sharon
Williams said.Hassani wears braces on both legs and has trouble
getting around. He was reportedly last seen about 4:15 p.m. standing
outside a vehicle in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland.The
boy is described as a light-skinned African-American, with short black
hair and brown eyes. He is 3 feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. He
was wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray sweatpants. Anyone with
information can call police at 510-238-3641 or 9-1-1.

The
foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy pleaded
for the child's safe return Wednesday, saying the family is going
through a "nightmare beyond belief" that includes scrutiny from police
and the FBI.



Louis
Welton Ross of Fremont said he and his fiancee, the boy's aunt, have
cooperated "100 percent" with authorities who are trying to find
Hasanni Campbell.
An attorney consulting with the couple said Ross took a polygraph
test Wednesday, one day after police and FBI investigators with search
dogs went through the family's home for several hours.
Ross fears that Hasanni was kidnapped. "If I could talk to anyone
who may have taken him, I would say, 'Drop him off and go - but don't
hurt him. You have done enough,' " Ross, 38, said in an interview in
the family's home on Roxie Terrace.
Ross told police Monday that Hasanni disappeared that afternoon
when Ross briefly left him in a car in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood
outside the College Avenue shoe store where his fiancee, Jennifer
Campbell, works.
The computer engineer said he had left the boy while he unlocked a
door to the store and that when he returned, Hasanni was gone.
Ross said he now understands that authorities must look into family
members as part of their investigation, but that police initially
seemed to assume that the couple had done something wrong.
"We were not involved in my son's disappearance in any way," Ross
said. "We are cooperating with the police and with the FBI 100 percent."
Campbell, 33, who is six months pregnant, remained upstairs in their
home during the interview. Relatives said she gained custody of Hasanni
after her sister, the boy's mother, was unable to care for him.
Polygraph test


Ross said he would not talk about the details of the investigation,
saying he wanted to make sure that he did nothing to jeopardize it. He
would not comment on the account by attorney John Burris of Oakland
that he had taken a polygraph test Wednesday after initially refusing.
Burris said he was consulting with the couple and had urged them to cooperate with authorities.
"I suggested to them, they need to be candid and truthful with the
police," Burris said. "The police should look at them; they need to
rule him and her out."
He added, "I don't see anything that suggests anything negative about these individuals."
An FBI expert administered the polygraph to Ross, law enforcement
sources said. Special Agent Joseph Schadler, a spokesman in the FBI's
San Francisco office, would not comment on the matter.
Campbell did not agree to a polygraph exam out of concern for how it might affect her unborn child, Burris said.
No sightings


There have been no reports of sightings of Hasanni since Ross says
he vanished. Ross said Hasanni would "never have walked off" by himself.
He said the boy wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral
palsy, not full leg braces, and that the public may have the idea that
he needed the braces to get around. "They are to reshape his foot, give
him an arch," Ross said. "He doesn't need them to walk."
After he reported Hasanni missing, Ross said, police seemed to blame
the family first. Authorities removed Hasanni's 1-year-old sister and
put her in another foster home, he said.
"We were very upset," he said. "We were dealing with a loss of a child, and the other child was taken from us.
"All of a sudden, it was like we were thrown against the wall," Ross
said. "We had to prove we were not responsible, but our son is out
there missing. We cannot be part of the search."
He said family members have distributed flyers in the Rockridge area
with Hasanni's photo and other information. The family did not go to
the media immediately because "our first and primary concern is the
return of our son," Ross said.
"This has been a nightmare beyond belief," he said.
Grandmother's account


Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, 62, of San Francisco said she
doubted Ross or Campbell were responsible for Hasanni's disappearance.
Ross, she said, is "a very professional man. He has a good job, he is
very hardworking, a good provider."
Clark added, "I don't think the family's involved at all."
Campbell became Hasanni's legal guardian after her sister,
25-year-old Shemika Campbell of San Francisco, could not take care of
him, relatives said.
Clark said Shemika Campbell is "just devastated" by the boy's disappearance.
Court records show that San Francisco officials sued Shemika
Campbell and Hasanni's father, Ronald Hughes, starting in 2005,
claiming they were unable to support Hasanni.
The actions, one against Hughes and the other against Campbell,
were apparently resolved last year with a default judgment entered on
behalf of the city. They could not be reached for comment.
The investigation into Hasanni's disappearance has jarred residents
on quiet Roxie Terrace, the street in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood
where Ross and Campbell moved in less than a year ago and kept to
themselves. Many in the community of two-story, well-kept homes said
they had not seen the boy at the corner house.
"We don't see them outside very much," said Ben Siu, adding, "I hope they find the boy."

Oakland
homicide investigators have joined in the case of a 5-year-old boy with
cerebral palsy who has been missing for three days, police said today.Six investigators joined officers from the Oakland police
missing-persons unit in canvassing the area Wednesday outside the shoe
store where Hasanni Campbell was reportedly last seen. Police passed
out flyers along the 6000 block of College Avenue in the city's
Rockridge district, urging anyone with information to contact them.
Oakland homicide Sgt. Mike Gantt, who was among those who visited
the scene, said today that police wanted some of their more seasoned
investigators to work the case and that no assumptions should be made
because they had been brought in.
"It's still a missing-persons case," Gantt said.
The homicide squad's visit came as Hasanni's foster father, Louis
Welton Ross, 38, of Fremont urged anyone with information about the
boy's whereabouts to contact police.
Ross said Wednesday the family is going through a "nightmare beyond belief" that includes scrutiny from police and the FBI.
Ross said he and his fiancee, the boy's aunt, have cooperated "100 percent" with authorities.
An attorney consulting with the couple said Ross took a polygraph
test Wednesday, one day after police and FBI investigators with search
dogs went through the family's home for several hours.
Ross fears that Hasanni was kidnapped. "If I could talk to anyone
who may have taken him, I would say, 'Drop him off and go - but don't
hurt him. You have done enough,' " Ross, 38, said in an interview in
the family's home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood.
Ross told Oakland police Monday that Hasanni disappeared that
afternoon when Ross briefly left him in a car outside the shoe store
where his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, works.
The computer engineer said he had left the boy while he unlocked a
door to the store and that when he returned, Hasanni was gone.
Ross said he now understands that authorities must look into family
members as part of their investigation, but that police initially
seemed to assume that the couple had done something wrong.
"We were not involved in my son's disappearance in any way," Ross
said. "We are cooperating with the police and with the FBI 100 percent."
Campbell, 33, who is six months pregnant, remained upstairs in their
home during the interview. Relatives said she gained custody of Hasanni
after her sister, the boy's mother, was unable to care for him.
Ross said he would not talk about the details of the investigation,
saying he wanted to make sure that he did nothing to jeopardize it. He
would not comment on the account by attorney John Burris of Oakland
that he had taken a polygraph test Wednesday after initially refusing.
Burris said he was consulting with the couple and had urged them to cooperate with authorities.
"I suggested to them, they need to be candid and truthful with the
police," Burris said. "The police should look at them; they need to
rule him and her out."
He added, "I don't see anything that suggests anything negative about these individuals."
An FBI expert administered the polygraph to Ross, law enforcement
sources said. Special Agent Joseph Schadler, a spokesman in the FBI's
San Francisco office, would not comment on the matter.
Campbell did not agree to a polygraph exam out of concern for how it might affect her unborn child, Burris said.
There have been no reports of sightings of Hasanni since Ross says
he vanished. Ross said Hasanni would "never have walked off" by himself.
He said the boy wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral
palsy, not full leg braces, and that the public may have the idea that
he needed the braces to get around. "They are to reshape his foot, give
him an arch," Ross said. "He doesn't need them to walk."
After he reported Hasanni missing, Ross said, police seemed to blame
the family first. Authorities removed Hasanni's 1-year-old sister and
put her in another foster home, he said.
"We were very upset," he said. "We were dealing with a loss of a child, and the other child was taken from us.
"All of a sudden, it was like we were thrown against the wall," Ross
said. "We had to prove we were not responsible, but our son is out
there missing."

An Oakland homicide detective has joined the search for Hassani Campbell,
the 5-year-old disabled Fremont boy who was reported missing Monday
afternoon, police said.The move comes the day after Louis Ross,
the boy's foster father, took a polygraph test. Ross has declined to
discuss the results."All I know is he told me he answered all
the questions truthfully," said Oakland civil rights attorney John
Burris, who is advising Ross and the boy's foster mother, Jennifer
Campbell. "I called him, and that's what he told me." Burris has not been formally retained by Ross."I
don't think (he) needs an attorney," Burris said today. Campbell has
declined to take a polygraph test because she is six months pregnant
and is worried the test could harm her unborn baby, Burris said. She
has not hired an attorney either. Also today, Oakland police
returned to Rockridge, trying to talk to people who have not been at
home or at work on previous search attempts. A CHP helicopter in the
air and police on the ground searched Coyote Hills Regional Park in
Fremont, but what if anything was found is not known.Hassani has
been living with Ross and Campbell, his biological aunt, since
December. Ross has told police that he last saw the boy about 4:15 p.m.
Monday when he went into Shuz of Rockridge on College Avenue to drop
off the boy's 1-year-old sister at the shoe store where Campbell, his
fiancee, works as a manager.Rosstold
police he left the child outside his BMW in a rear parking lot when he
went into the store for a few minutes. When Ross returned to the lot,
the boy was gone, police said.Hassani has cerebral palsy and
wears orthopedic ankle braces to help shape his feet, not leg braces as
previously reported by police. Ross said the boy can walk without the
braces but would not wander away on his own."Hassani does not
wander away," Ross said Wednesday night during his first interview
since the disappearance, pleading with anyone who may have him to drop
him off at a hospital or school. Ross has said he believes the boy was
kidnapped.When asked if he believes someone he knows could be
behind the disappearance, Ross said, "As a father, those are thoughts
you don't entertain. This has been a nightmare."Campbell did not talk to reporters Wednesday but did show a different photo of the boy after emerging from upstairs.No
independent witnesses have come forward to report seeing the boy Monday
in Oakland, police said. Some in the Rockridge area said they haven't
seen the boy since last week. A few neighbors on Roxie Terrance in
Fremont, where the family lives, said they have never seen the boy in
the nine months he's lived there.Oakland police Sgt. Ray
Backman, a department spokesman, said today that six homicide
investigators have assisted with the search along with at least 50
Oakland police officers, and that one full-time homicide investigator
has been assigned to the case. "It's not unusual in such cases,"
Backman said. On Wednesday, Alameda County search-and-rescue
teams combed Karl Nordvic Park and the surrounding area in North
Fremont but did not turn up anything during the four-hour search. The
park is less than mile from where the boy lives.The FBI searched
the Ross and Campbell's home for several hours Tuesday. The National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children advised Oakland police
earlier this week.Ross and Hassani Campbell was last seen in a car parked near the Shuz of Rockridge.
Campbell have been caring for the boy because the boy's
biological mother, who lives in San Francisco, has drug and health
problems, authorities said. Police have spoken to both the mother,
Shemika L. Campbell, and the biological father, Ronald Hughes, also of
San Francisco, but have not released details about those talks.The
boy's 1-year-old sister was taken into protective custody Monday as
police investigate the case. Ross and Campbell are in the process of
obtaining legal custody of the two children.The boy is described
as a light-skinned African-American with short black hair and brown
eyes. He is 3 feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. He was wearing a
gray sweatshirt and gray sweatpants when he was last seen.Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3641 or dial 911.

The
foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy was interviewed for about an
hour Friday by Oakland police homicide investigators who brought him to
a Hayward auto wrecking yard where he took the boy before the child
vanished, authorities said.Louis
Ross agreed to accompany Sgt. Gus Galindo to the Pick Your Part
wrecking yard on Winton Avenue, where Ross took Hasanni Campbell and
the boy's 1-year-old sister Monday afternoon, hours before the boy
disappeared, said John Burris, a lawyer whom Ross is consulting.
Monday night, Ross reported that the boy had vanished from outside a
shoe store on College Avenue in Oakland where Ross' fiancee, Jennifer
Campbell, was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy outside
while he went around to the front of the store.
Police have searched in and around the auto-parts yard and the store
in recent days, along with a park near the family's home in Fremont.
They say they still consider the case a missing person investigation.
Ross, 38, has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent."
He took a polygraph examination Wednesday, but federal authorities who
administered the test will not discuss the findings.
Burris said police took Ross to the wrecking yard and spoke with him
for about an hour Friday before returning him to his home on Roxie
Terrace.
"They wanted to find out what he knows," Burris said. "He was very cooperative."
Ross told Burris that he had gone to the yard looking for a car
part. He was taking care of the children before dropping them off at
the shoe store so he could go to a job orientation at Stanford Hospital
Medical Center and then a medical assistant's class in Union City,
Burris said.
Alameda County sheriff's deputies will be searching Coyote Hills
Regional Park in Fremont on Saturday and undisclosed locations in
Hayward, authorities with knowledge of the case said. It is not clear
why those areas were being targeted for more intensive searches.

Poster's Note: Something's not right. This "foster father" keeps changing his story. First, Hassani was left in the car, then he was left standing next to the car. First the "father" went in the store to open the back door, now he's saying he never went in...Can anyone verify that the child was with him at all?

The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy says some media accounts
of the handicapped Oakland, Calif., child's disappearance are wrong.
Louis Ross, 38, told CNN Friday that contrary to some reports, he
never went inside a shoe store during the last time Hassani Campbell
was seen alive in the store's parking lot. The boy, who has cerebral
palsy, has been the subject of an intense search since his Monday
disappearance.
The Oakland Tribune reported Friday that Ross has told police he
left the boy alone when he went into a shoe store to drop off Hassani's
1-year-old sister. Jennifer Campbell, Ross's fiancee and the boy's
biological aunt who has custody, works as a manager at the store, the
newspaper said.
On the CNN show, Ross said he never went into the shoe store but
only to the front of the business to motion to Campbell that he had
arrived.
Ross told the U.S. broadcaster he voluntarily took a polygraph test. Those test results have not been disclosed.
Areas of southern Alameda County were to be searched for signs of
Hassani Saturday by law enforcement agents, including FBI, police and
sheriff's deputies, the Tribune said.

About 100 volunteers searched for a missing disabled boy on Saturday.
Hasanni Campbell was last seen Monday in the Rockridge district of
Oakland. Efforts to find him have taken investigators all over the East
Bay.
The latest point of interest has been the Coyote Hills Regional Park in
Fremont. The area crews were searching was only about a half-mile from
Hasanni's house, but far from the parking lot in Oakland where he is
said to have disappeared on Monday. Crews searched the park from about
9 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m. but they came up with nothing. The volunteers spent most of the day searching through high brush at
the park and marshlands in Hayward for any sign of the missing
5-year-old. Police say investigative leads led them to the search areas
but they would not be any more specific. "These weren't our
most likely leads but now that we've pretty much saturated the area of
disappearance, we're branching out to some of the less likely
scenarios," said Oakland police Sgt. Raymond Backman. Hasanni
went missing Monday afternoon after his foster parent Louis Ross says
he left the boy standing in an Oakland parking lot for just a few
minutes. Since then, the police and FBI have searched Ross's home that
he shares with Hasanni's aunt. Police have also spent hours questioning
the couple. On Saturday the family was not involved in the search. "We are not actively soliciting their help they are dealing with enough
right now so we're trying to limiting their involvement, particularly
because the areas we're searching today, there's a lot of hazards,"
Backman explained. The sight of search dogs surprised many who visited Coyote Hills Saturday afternoon. "It's sad and shocking. I had no idea. I come to the park mostly once
or twice a week for my walk. I just saw some activity and I was
curious," said park visitor Gurjit Randhawa. "We feel really sorry for that boy. It's really safe here," said Lizhen Wu. With the days ticking by searchers know time is not on their side. "The statistics show having a successful location of the victim without
harm greatly diminishes. We're certainly acutely aware of that,"
Backman said. Neigbors of Hasanni's step father say they have
not seen anyone at the house in the last couple of days. Oakland police
say it is back to the drawing board as far as where to begin searching
next.

The family of the East Bay boy who has been missing for one week is holding a vigil tonight in Oakland.
Hassani Campbell is just five years old. His foster father said he left the little boy
in his car while he walked around to the front a shoe store where the
boy's foster mother worked last Monday afternoon.
Louis Ross said when he got back to the car, Hassani was gone.
This afternoon friends, family and strangers will gather in Rockridge to
remember Hassani and try to bring attention to the case.
The vigil is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. near the Shuz shoe store where his foster mother worked.
As in all missing child cases, the family has been questioned several times by police. Ross told NBC
Bay Area that he and the boy's foster mother, Hassani's aunt, are fully
cooperating with investigators. He also told NBC Bay Area by phone that
he had nothing to do with Hassani's disappearance and that he and the
boy's foster mother have agreed to take lie detector tests.
Ross took the polygraph test last week but the foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, is pregnant and didn't want to take the test for fear it would harm her unborn child, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Police are not commenting about the polygraph test.
Police also towed Ross' car but have not said yet whether they have found
anything important to the case. FBI agents have also searched the
Fremont home where Hassani lives with his foster parents.
Hassani has cerebral palsy and wears braces on his feet to help him walk. The
prosthetics, adorned with Spiderman logos, would not be visible because
they are fitted just for his feet. While he can walk, Hasanni's
disability prevents him from running or jumping.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has also joined the search.
Hassani is African American with brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet
tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt
and gray pants.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward Monday for
information leading to the whereabouts of Hassani Campbell, a
5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared a week ago.
Hassani, who lived in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and
Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the
Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in
Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10. Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hassani. Thomason said police have only received about 50 tips, which he said is unusually low for a week-old missing child case. He said police are following all the leads but haven't turned up anything so far.A
vigil for the little boy Monday afternoon brought well wishers to the
Rockridge District shoe store where Hasanni's foster father said he
last saw the child.Ross has been questioned by police and given
a lie detector test. On Monday, Ross angrily addressed speculation that
he might be involved in the disappearance of his foster son."'Oh,
they were foster parents. Did they really care?' Well, you go talk to
social services,” said Ross. “You wanna find the record straight? You
go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a
damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This
wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've
fought every inch for both of them."Hasanni's foster family is
also grappling with the loss of their one year-old foster daughter who
has been removed from their care."All we want is our children home. We want Hasanni found and Aaliyah with us," said the boy’s foster mother Campbell.Police indicated there were no new searches Monday amid concerns that time could be running out to find the boy unharmed.
Thomason said police are still treating Hassani's disappearance as a
missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him
alive may be dwindling."As time goes on, that is going to be our
fear; that this will be a recovery," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff
Tomason. "But right now, we are still treating it as trying to find a
little five year-old boy." He said on Saturday law enforcement
officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the
tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional
Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant. Police
describe Hassani as being a black boy with medium complexion, brown
hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30
pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants. Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled and has leg braces.
Thomason said people with information on the case should call the
Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510)
777-3211.

Family members of a missing disabled child hit the streets of Oakland
again, asking for help. Their little one has been missing for more than
a week.
Police are shocked that only a few tips have come in about the
disappearance of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell in the Rockridge
neighborhood.
The family members who are leafleting in the neighborhood said they are
being sustained by hope and prayer. On Tuesday morning, investigators
went to the shoe store and left in an unmarked car with the child's
foster father, Louis Ross. Trinity Schwabacher is Hasanni's aunt. She says somebody in the Rockridge neighborhood must know something. "I mean this is too crowded a street  you know, cars like every five
minutes. I mean come on man, somebody has got to have seen him," said
Schwabacher. This is why Schwabacher and other family members
of the missing 5-year-old mobilized a dozen young volunteers from their
church to hand out leaflets. Pamela Clark is Hasanni's grandmother. "If I didn't have hope, I couldn't do this, you know. I have hope that he'll be found safe and sound," said Clark. "They end up finding kids after months, sometimes years so I yes, I do
have hope. I pray every day," said volunteer LaShanda Collins. They started from the shoe store on College Avenue where the boy vanished in the late afternoon a week ago Monday. Hassani's foster dad, Louis Ross, says he briefly left him at the store's back parking space while he went into the store. Ross says when he came back, the boy was gone. "I'm sure somebody just grabbed him in the car and took off," said Clark. Although police and the FBI have searched several parks, a Hayward
wrecking yard and combed the neighborhood, going door to door,
Hassani's godmother, Regina Douglas says they're leafleting areas
investigators may have missed. "It was said that about 300 homes did not respond to the door knocking. So we feel that needs to continue," she said. Mark Gavriel was one of several people we spoke with who said they had never heard of this case. "I have a Xerox machine in my house. We have to make some flyers now
and put them up in Lake Merritt where I live," said Gavriel. Police said the investigation continues, and there is no new information.

“The longer he’s out there and not found, it doesn’t look good,” Louis Ross says, choking up, in an interview about his missing foster son, 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.


Campbell disappeared Aug. 10 in Oakland, Calif. when Ross left him
in standing near the family car in the parking lot behind the shoe
store where his fiancée, Campbell’s biological aunt and foster mom,
Jennifer Campbell works. Upon seeing that their son had disappeared
Ross and Campbell called 911 and began frantically searching.


“Hasanni does not wander away,” Ross said

How can Ross be so sure?


Hasanni was born with Cerebral Palsy, a type of permanent disorder
that inhibits development of movement and posture, i.e., he had trouble
walking, and according to Ross, could do so with concentration.


Contrary to early reports that described him wearing metal braces
on his legs, Ross told reporters he wears plastic braces on his feet,
which would not be visible over his clothes. He also said that if his
son’s braces were removed he would still be able to walk, but would be
looking down at the ground in focus.


Hasanni was left alone for “about five minutes, probably less,” Ross said in the same interview.


When asked what he think did happen in those five minutes, Ross
tears up: “as a father, those are thoughts you don’t want to
entertain.”


Jeff Thomason says Ross is mostly likely correct in his assumption
that Hassani did not walk away: “anything’s possible but it’s not
likely…right now no witnesses saw Hassani walking away from that area.”


The FBI has joined the search, along with several other local
agencies. On the day of his disappearance a massive search was
launched, including the use of a California Highway Patrol airplane and
the K-9 unit. In the past eight days they have gone door-to-door in
parts of Oakland and searched numerous locations, including a regional
park and his foster parents’ home in Freemont.



Hassani Campbell, five, disappeared on Aug. 10 when his foster father left him in a parking lot for a mere five minutes.


The police have only received around 50 tips, which Thomason told
reporters is an unusually low number for a week-old missing child case.


“We definitely need the public’s help,” Thomason said

A $10,000 reward was offered Monday by Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers for information leading to the whereabouts of the boy.


“This is a continuous investigation that will be conducted day and night,” Officer Seth Neri said in a press conference.


The Oakland PD has been in touch with the biological mother, who
lives in San Francisco, and told Crimesider that she is not a person of
interest at this point.

Hasanni was removed from his 25-year-old mother’s home because she
had physically abused him. Shemika Campbell, who also has Cerebral
Palsy, says she thinks someone kidnapped him. In an exclusive interview she says, “I always had a feeling that he would be gone from me one day.”

Oakland police
say a tip line set up in the hopes it would help find a missing boy is
operating again after numerous calls from one tipster tied up the line.Police spokesman Jeff Thomason
says the Crime Stoppers tip line is up and running after one caller
left about 40 messages, none of which turned out to be credible.The
line was set up in the hopes leads would come in that would help
authorities find 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell. A reward of up to $10,000
is also being offered for information.

The boy has been missing since Aug. 10 when his foster father, Louis Ross, left him in a car parked near a shoe store where his foster mother works.Ross says Hasanni was gone when he returned.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason
said Wednesday that police are "very concerned" about a 5-year-old boy
with cerebral palsy who has now been missing for nine days.
Hasanni Campbell, who lives in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross
and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of
the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in
Oakland about 4:15 p.m. nine days ago.
Thomason said police talk to Hasanni's foster parents every day and that they are being cooperative.
Ross has been questioned several times by police and has taken a lie detector test.
On Monday, he answered speculation that he might be
involved in Hasanni's disappearance. He told reporters to talk to
social services about the placement of Hasanni in his home.
“You go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a
damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This
wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've
fought every inch for both of them,." Ross said.
The couple was also serving as foster parents to Hasanni's younger sister. That child has been taken from the couple.
A reporter asked Hasanni's grandmother if she thought Ross had anything
to do with the disappearance and she said no and adding that she
trusted Ross completely.
Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing
persons case and that there is no evidence a crime has been committed.
"We're asking the public to call if they have any credible tips," Thomason said.
The child's relatives held a vigil on Monday afternoon in Rockridge. Only about two dozen people turned out.
Police said they have followed up on all of the approximately 50 tips they've
received so far but none have panned out. Thomason has told reporters
that 50 is a very low number when it comes to high profile cases like
Hasanni's. They normally come in by the hundreds.
Oakland police and Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni.
Thomason said one caller left about 40 unhelpful messages with Crime Stoppers
and clogged its voicemail box. But the voicemail box is now open again,
he said.
On Saturday, law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland
and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as
well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything
significant.
Thomason said police have also searched North Oakland thoroughly.
Police describe Hasanni as a black boy with medium complexion, brown hair and
brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs about 30 pounds. He was
last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants.
Police said he has some difficulty walking because he has cerebal palsy.
Thomason said people with information on the case should call the Oakland Police
Department or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572 or 510-777-3211.

The Oakland Tribune confirmed last night that
authorities were searching for a “sword or cutting instrument” at the
home and in the car belonging to Louis Ross when the search warrant was
served the day after Hassani was reported missing. They were also
searching for biological evidence from Hassani in the home. According
to the article police recovered the following evidence:

…a pair of latex gloves, 8 DNA swabs and 4 fingerprint lifts from the car. They did not recover anything from the home.⁶

Authorities also confirmed that Louis Ross failed the
polygraph examination administered by the FBI. The tipline has been
down for a couple of days but it is working again. You can phone your
tips to 1-(510) 777-8572 or 1-(510) 777-3211.

The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy sent an
angry text message threatening to leave the child alone at a BART
platform just 10 days before Hasanni Campbell vanished, according to
court documents released today.
In addition, Louis Ross "voiced some misgivings" about caring for a
disabled child when he talked to officers investigating the child's
Aug. 10 disappearance, according to a statement that Oakland police
submitted to justify obtaining a search warrant of Ross' Fremont home.
According to the police account, Ross sent an expletive-laden text
message July 31 to Jennifer Campbell, his fiancee and the aunt and
foster mother of Hasanni.
"This is f- over, I will watch her but he will be out on the BART
and its your responsibility to hey (sic) him so f - you," Ross texted
at 9:50 a.m., police said. The references appear to be to Hasanni and
his 1-year-old sister.
Ross reported Aug. 10 that the boy had vanished from outside a shoe
store on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood where
Campbell was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy outside
when he went around to the front of the store.
Police have searched the neighborhood, Ross' home, a Hayward scrap
yard that he visited earlier in the day and local parks, but have not
found the boy.
A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing.
Oakland police Officer Ross Tisdell wrote in the court papers that
the relationship between Ross, 38, and Campbell, 33, "appeared to have
some instances of domestic violence."
Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished by Ross at Campbell," but did not elaborate.
A "sword or cutting instrument" were among the items that police
sought in a search of his 2002 BMW and the home on Roxie Terrace in
Fremont where Ross lives with Campbell and the two children.
Nothing was seized from the home, but Ross voluntarily gave his cell phone to police, court records show.
In addition to the text message, police described an instance in
which Ross apparently left the two children alone in the home "while he
went to the bank to conduct a transaction."
"He had also voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child during the interview," Tisdell wrote.
Ross, reached by phone today, downplayed any domestic disputes with Campbell.
He said he had sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with Campbell.
"It was me venting about a situation in our past that had come back
up," he said. "I was ending the relationship at that point."
He said he had not left Hasanni alone at BART. He said he had wanted
Campbell to pick up the children, but that she had been unable to do
so. The dispute quickly cooled, Ross said.
As for the sword, Ross said he had told police about it and that
officers had later returned and picked it up. He said he kept it under
a mattress.
"It wasn't a big deal," he said.
Ross has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent" and
that he told the truth when he took a polygraph examination last week.
Law enforcement sources close to the case say, however, say he failed the polygraph. Such tests are not admissible in court.
John Burris, an attorney who has consulted with the couple,
emphasized today that Ross has always cooperated with the
investigation.
"He's very responsive," Burris said.
The case has been puzzling to authorities in part because
bloodhounds could not detect Hasanni's scent outside the Rockridge shoe
store where Ross says he left the boy.
In the search warrant affidavit, police said it was a mystery that
Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no
witnesses."
There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the boy's
whereabouts. Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said
the department still considers the case a missing person investigation.
However, a homicide investigator has been put in charge of the case.

Hassani Campbell's Father Fails Lie Detector Test




KTVU


The father of five-year-old Hassani Campbell, the boy who went missing from a parking lot in Oakland’s Rockridge district last week, failed a FBI lie detector test. KTVU has word that "[l]aw enforcement sources have confirmed...that [Louis] Ross failed a polygraph test given by the FBI last week," even though he told KTVU, during an interview, that he answered all questions honestly. KTVU goes on to say that police have searched Campbell's Fremont home, looking for "biological evidence belonging to Hasanni, and a sword or cutting instrument." Evidence also suggests that it's "unlikely Hasanni wandered off." Anyway, people with information on the case are urged to call the Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572 or 510-777-3211

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Court documents are providing new insights into the investigation of a missing Fremont boy.
Hasanni Campbell disappeared Aug. 10th after his foster father, Louis Ross, says he left him in a car near an Oakland shoe store.
In a search warrant affidavit released Thursday, investigators said they were mystified that Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no witnesses."
Also, bloodhounds were unable to detect Hasanni's scent outside the store where Ross says he left the boy.
The affidavit was part of a statement that Oakland police submitted to obtain a warrant to search the family home.
Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason says Hasanni's disappearance is still a missing person investigation, but says a homicide investigator is in charge of the case.