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4 Bronx kids missing from their homes this week, police say
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Brittany Kriegstein
Published May 7, 2025
Modified May 7, 2025
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Police are looking for four Bronx children who went missing from their homes in the past several days, and are asking the public to help find them.
Jaylen Bradley, 13, was reported missing by his family after he didn’t show up to school Monday and never came home. Police said he lives on Findlay Avenue and East 167th Street in Concourse Village and has run away from home before.
Jaylen Bradley, 13
NYPD
15-year-old Yetzaira Rivera left her home on Concord Avenue and East 150th Street in Melrose on Monday around 4 p.m. and did not return, according to the NYPD. Police said she texted a family member that she was on her way home, but she never showed up and her family later tracked her iPhone to Manhattan.
Yetzaira Rivera, 15
NYPD
Enel Arias Torres, 14, has been missing since Tuesday, when she went to school and didn’t return to her home on Wallace and Baker avenues in Van Nest, officials said. She was last spotted with a friend at the Simpson Street subway station on the 2 and 5 lines around 4 p.m., according to police.
Enel Arias Torres, 14
NYPD
The youngest of the missing children, 11-year-old Jennae Ellis, was last seen Tuesday around 3 p.m. at her school on Forest Avenue and East 156th Street in Melrose, police said. Officials said she didn’t return to her home on East 222nd Street and Carpenter Avenue in Williamsbridge after having an argument with a family member.
Jennae Ellis, 11
NYPD
NYPD officials said a fifth child, 15-year-old Gennesis Guzman, went missing around 2:45 a.m. Friday from her home at NYCHA’s Monroe Houses in Soundview after a dispute with a family member, but has since been found.
The NYPD is asking anyone with information about the children’s whereabouts to call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips on the Crime Stoppers website.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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