Kyron Horman, 7 years old PORTLAND, OR #1 6/5/10 - 6/30/10
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Police looking for missing Skyline Elementary student
By KATU.com Staff
http://www.katu.com/news/local/95669809.html
Police are looking for a second grader from Skyline Elementary who did not come home from school Friday.
Story Published: Jun 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM PDT
Story Updated: Jun 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. - Police are looking for a second grader from Skyline Elementary who did not come home from school Friday.
Late Friday night the search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman was upgraded to a major crimes team investigation which brings in the FBI. Officials said the search was upgraded because the FBI has more resources.
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby said Horman was at school Friday and Portland Public Schools sent out an automated phone call to all Skyline parents alerting them to the missing boy.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau have been on the scene searching for the boy since early Friday evening and have been calling the boy’s name in the area of the school.
His stepmother took Horman to a science fair at the school Friday morning. They walked through a number of classrooms and his stepmother left at 8:45.
According to the sheriff’s office, the stepmother saw the boy walking toward his classroom as she left the building but officials with Portland Public Schools said Horman’s teacher never saw him in class which started at 10 a.m. The teacher marked him absent.
When Horman didn’t get off the bus in the afternoon, his parents called police.
Shelby said Horman’s parents weren’t notified when he was marked absent because Skyline doesn’t use an auto-dialer which calls parents to report the student is absent. Shelby said the school doesn’t use such a system because it doesn’t have problems with attendance.
If anyone has any information to the whereabouts of Horman they are urged to call the following phone number: (503) 261-2847.
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cartfly:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Second-grade-student-missing-from-Skyline-Elementary-95670454.html
NW Portland second-grader still missing Saturday
by Michael Rollins and Amanda Burden
kgw.com
Posted on June 4, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Updated today at 5:54 PM
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Searchers culled from police agencies statewide, in addition to the FBI, were pursuing tips Saturday and still searching around Skyline Elementary School after a student didn't return home Friday afternoon.
Kyron Horman, 7, was last seen early in the day at the school, 11536 NW Skyline Blvd., during a science fair.
He is 3 foot 8 and 50 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was wearing black cargo pants, white socks, worn black Skecher tennis shoes with orange trim and dark-colored t-shirt with the "CSI" show logo.
Twelve police agencies, the Oregon National Guard and search and rescue units were involved in the search. In all, about 150 officers were working the case, said Captain Jason Gates of the Multnomah County sheriff's office.
Gates said Saturday that police received a 9-1-1 call at 3:45 Friday afternoon.
In most cases, missing children are often at the homes of a friend or a favorite hangout, he said, but those leads were quickly eliminated and police realized a major search needed to be launched.
As many as 15 Portland police officers were the first responders, Gates said. They searched the school grounds and immediate area without finding the child. The scope of the search and investigation was then quickly widened.
That first search included police bureau dogs who sniffed areas of the building where the boy might have been hidden from view. The roof was also searched, he said.
The Horman family has been very cooperative, he said, and are doing the best they can under traumatic circumstances. The birth mother came to Portland after her son was reported missing. All parents were in constant contact with detectives, he said.
Gates asked all neighbors to thoroughly search their properties, including outbuildings, a "no stone left unturned" search. He also asked neighbors to cooperate with detectives who ask to come on to their property.
While many civilians may want to help with the search, he said to please stay away and let the professional searchers, of which there are now a considerable number, do their jobs.
Parents of the 300 children and school staff will be asked to come to the school on Sunday on a staggered basis to interview with detectives to glean more information about Kyron's interests and school activities, he said. They will be notified via a Portland Public Schools messaging system.
If parents of staff cannot arrive at the designated time, simply show up at the school, he said.
Gates gamely fielded a barrage of questions but declined to answer most. The strategy of the investigation Saturday, he said, was to collect strong tips. Passing out information could taint a person's memory, or prompt false tips, he said.
Parent Gina Zimmerman was at the school for the science fair, which she described as major academic and social event for the school where the day's events included an afternoon talent show.
She said Kyron is not the type of child to wander off. "He knows 'stranger danger," she said. "He's a really good kid."
Parents are shocked at the disappearance, she said, and have been calling to share concerns at "our little school where everyone knows everybody."
She last saw Kyron in the morning, when he posed in a classroom in front of his "red-eyed tree frog" science project. He was posing for a picture taken by his mother, whom he loves, Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman's daughter Madi is one of Kyron's best friends.
The 8-year-old said she and Kyron would play Dragons and Knights and sway together on the tire swings. "I'm very worried and I hope he's okay," she said.
She also said Kyron would not have gone off with a stranger, only with his mother, whom he loves.
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby said two teachers saw Kyron with his stepmother and thought the two left school together. He said it was common for parents to pick up kids this way, so no suspicions were raised.
District officials were notified that the boy was missing at around 4 p.m.
Police upgraded the case overnight to a Major Crime Teams investigation to allow more police resources to be tapped, said Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand.
Staff of the FBI, the Oregon State Police, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Portland Gresham and Fairview police were searching area of the school, which is on NW Skyline Blvd. just east of NW Cornelius Pass Road. Canine units and search and rescue organizations have also been called out, she said.
Capt. Gates said the number of agencies will continue to grow. The effort is partly from the heart, as many in law enforcement can identify with the Horman family because they have children of their own.
Lindstrand said about 20 miles of roadway and two square miles of land were part of the search area.
Anyone who has seen Kyron or knows of his whereabouts was asked to call (503) 261-2847.
PPS sent an automated phone message to parents of students at Skyline Elementary, but parents of students at other schools across the district have also reported getting the message.
Shelby said the message was only intended to go to Skyline parents, but he said it's good that more people may be aware of the missing child.
MuffyBee:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Media/kyron-horman-missing-disappeared-elementary-school/story?id=10836677
FBI, National Guard Search for Missing Boy Kyron Harmon
7-Year-Old Disappeared From School, Last Seen Friday Morning
June 5, 2010
Kyron Horman, a 7-year-old Portland, Ore., boy disappeared Friday, June 4, 2010, at Skyline Elementary School, shortly after leaving an early morning science fair, where he presented his project on tree frogs.
(Courtesy the Horman family)
The FBI and National Guard have been called in to join the search for a 7-year-old Portland, Ore., boy who disappeared from his elementary school after being last seen Friday morning.
Kyron Harmon went to Skyline Elementary School early Friday morning with his step-mother, Terri Moulton Kaine, to participate in a science fair, but no one saw him after she left him, walking down a hallway to his classroom at around 8:45 a.m..
When Kyron did not return home on his school bus as scheduled at 3:30 p.m. Friday June 4, his family called to report that he had not returned home.
The Multnomah County Sherriff's Office was contacted at approximately 4 p.m.
"We definitely got a late start here," sheriff's office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said today. "The family didn't know that he wasn't at school, his teacher didn't see him so we are feeling like we are behind the eight-ball here."
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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/search_for_missing_portland_bo.html
More pictures of search and video at the above link
Authorities upgrade search for missing Portland boy to major crimes investigation
By Allan Brettman, The Oregonian
June 05, 2010, 9:37AM
Detectives were going door to door in a rural part of Northwest Portland Saturday after the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office upgraded the search for a missing 7-year-old boy to a Major Crimes Team investigation, employing more than 150 personnel from several metro-area law enforcement agencies and the FBI.
Kyron Horman was last seen about 9 a.m. Friday after attending a science fair at Skyline Elementary School, according to Matt Shelby, spokesman for Portland Public Schools. The second-grade boy was with his stepmother at the fair that morning, but never checked back in with his teacher afterward, Shelby said.
The stepmother said she last saw Kyron at approximately 8:45, walking down the hallway towards his classroom, according to a sheriff's department press release. The school staff reported not seeing him after 8:45 and that he did not make it to his classroom.
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Capt. Jason Gates, speaking at a noon press conference at the school Saturday, said someone called 9-1-1 at about 3:45 p.m. to report Kyron missing. He would not say who made the call.
He said Portland police initiated the search and “it was realized it was not going to be an immediate find.”
Gates later said that meant that the boy was not going to be found in an expected place, such as the school or his home. He said, “The family has been nothing less than completely cooperative.”
He said detectives are going door to door in the area and he encouraged residents to talk to them. He said detectives are in the process of contacting every Skyline parent to come to the school on Sunday so they can be interviewed individually.
Asked if the FBI typically gets involved in a missing person’s case, he said no. In this instance, they are involved “because they care.”
Portland police responded to initial reports of the missing boy, then handed the case to the sheriff's office, which has jurisdiction in unincorporated areas of the county.
Members searched throughout the night, covering more than 20 miles of road and two square miles. Authorities set up a perimeter around the school that only searchers were allowed to cross. The school is a brick building in a rural area of farms and upscale homes along Skyline Boulevard.
Kyron is described as 3 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 50 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with the logo of the “CSI” television show, black cargo pants, white socks and black Skecher tennis shoes with orange trim. He wears glasses.
An automated phone message was sent to Skyline parents about 5:30 p.m. Friday. Parents of students at other schools in the district also received that message.
Lt. Mary Lindstrand, a sheriff's spokeswoman, said the agency would have searchers out as long as needed.
The boy lives with his father and stepmother. Lindstrand said his mother, who lives out of the area, was on her way here.
Gina Zimmerman, president of the school PTA, dropped by the Skyline search scene Saturday morning with her 8-year-old daughter Madi, who has been a classmate of Kyron for three years.
“He’s not the type of child who would just go out of school and go searching or wandering around,” Zimmerman said. “He’s just a timid, sweet boy.”
Zimmerman said she was in contact with the father, Kaine Horman, and stepmother, Terri Horman, and detectives Friday night. “Everybody’s just worried and in shock that this could happen in our little school where everybody knows everybody.”
She said the K-8 school has about 300 students. The principal, Ben Keefer, declined to comment Saturday.
Zimmerman said she arrived at the school around 8:15 a.m. Friday, as most parents and students did, to attend the end-of-year science fair. Terri Horman took a photograph of Kyron in front of his project, Zimmerman said.
Kyron’s project was on the red-eye tree frog, Madi said.
“We always play on the swings together,” she said of her friend. I’m thinking my thoughts for him. I’m very worried.”
Zimmerman said everyone went into their classroom for the science fair and broke into parent-led groups of four or five. She wasn’t sure what group Kyron was in. but she said the last time she saw him was at 8:15, when the groups began going from class to class.
“Then you were supposed to stay with your group. I don’t know what group he was in.”
Zimmerman said the boy has no learning disabilities. “He’s a good kid who follows the rules,” she said.
“We’re really close to the family, “ she added, noting that Kyron has an older brother and a younger sister. “We’ve been on the phone with them all night.”
Anyone with information regarding Kyron's whereabouts is asked to call a tip line at 503-261-2847.
-- Allan Brettman
MuffyBee:
http://www.katu.com/news/95691389.html
Search continues for missing 7 year old
June 5, 2010
This photo, from the Facebook page of the missing boy's step mother, was taken the morning of Kyron Horman's disappearance. The snapshot shows Kyron in the shirt he was wearing at the time he went missing. His science-fair project is in the background.
PORTLAND, Ore. – The National Guard is now assisting in the search for a second grader from Portland's Skyline Elementary School who went missing Friday.
That's according to a press conference held Saturday by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The FBI also has asked to participate in the search, although as of Saturday – according to spokesman and Multnomah Captain Jason Gates – it had yet to do so.
Even so, more than 150 searchers have been scouring this rural part of Northwest Portland. Searchers include several law enforcement agencies and a police helicopter. Authorities have set up a perimeter around the school that only searchers are being allowed to cross.
We know that 7-year-old Kyron Horman did not return home on his school bus as scheduled at 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 4. Family called Skyline Elementary School soon after, and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office became involved around 4 p.m.
Matt Shelby, spokesman for Portland Public Schools, said Kyron was with his stepmother at a science fair that morning (see photo above). However, Kyron never checked back in with his teacher afterward, Shelby said.
The boy's stepmother reports they walked through a number of classrooms and she last saw Kyron around 8:45 a.m. Friday. She last saw him, she reports, walking down the hallway toward his classroom at 11536 N.W. Skyline Blvd.
School staff report not seeing him after 8:45 a.m.
Multnomah County deputies called in their Search and Rescue team to begin a search of the area surrounding the school after school hours Friday. As the evening progressed, SearchOne Canine Inc. and Portland Police also joined in the search.
High grasses on the surrounding property are making the search difficult: "If they're not calling out to you," said a spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in the Saturday press conference, "unless you basically step right over them you're going to miss them."
On Friday a decision was made to upgrade the search to a Major Crimes Team investigation. This allows for more resources to be deployed, which included resources from Portland Police Bureau, Gresham Police Department, Fairview Police Department, Oregon State Patrol and the FBI.
Search and rescue resources also expanded to include SearchOne Canine Inc., Mountain Rescue, Yamhill County Canine and additional members of the Multnomah County Search and Rescue team. Members continued their searching throughout the night, encompassing more than 20 miles of road and two square miles. Portland Police Bureau's air unit also was called in.
Saturday morning, around 7 a.m., the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office readied for its second operational period to find Kyron Horman. It ordered more resources which include Search and Rescue resources from Washington County Sheriff's Office, Yamhill County Sheriff's Office, Clark County Washington, Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue and a National Guard helicopter.
Anyone with information regarding Kyron Horman's whereabouts has been asked to call the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office tip line, 1-503-261-2847, or to dial 9-1-1 with emergency information.
Lieutenant Mary Lindstrand, a spokesperson for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, said the agency would have searchers out as long as needed.
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