A family has spent over a week desperately going back and forth between Brooklyn and Queens looking for any sign of their missing 15-year-old son.<\/p>\n
Jafet Jemmott, or Elijah as his friends call him, is a student at Midwood High School who\u00a0has been missing from his home in the Rockaways.<\/p>\n
“I\u00a0believe that someone has him,” Jafet’s father, Federico Jemmott, told News 12 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Jafet’s family says the last confirmed location for him was at 6 a.m. on Friday,\u00a0Nov. 28. He\u00a0was seen leaving their home on their security cameras.<\/p>\n
Federico says Jafet wanted\u00a0to go shopping at a thrift store in Brooklyn, and then to the Kings Plaza Mall with his friends. He says they got into an argument about it the night before.<\/p>\n
While they assumed he had just left early to go anyway, they saw through an app that his phone only had 5% battery remaining when he left the house. By\u00a0the time they tried to call him, it was too late.<\/p>\n
As the day and night went on and they had not heard from him, they began to worry. His friends say he never showed up.<\/p>\n
“The last conversation we had was me arguing with him about he cannot go,”\u00a0Federico said.\u00a0“I don’t even want to think about it.”<\/p>\n
The family says workers at the YMCA near their home saw someone matching his description, looking\u00a0like they were about to get on the Q52 bus a little after Jafet left the house. His\u00a0phone’s last location was going over the Cross Bay Bridge.<\/p>\n
“We have no idea where he was going, because he doesn’t usually take the 52,” Federico said.<\/p>\n
He also told News 12, that through the phone company, were able to see he got a few messages on WhatsApp two hours before he left the house. However, they were unable to tell the full number they came from, and not what they said.<\/p>\n
“My theory is that maybe he was speaking to someone online,” Federico explained. “They probably convinced him to leave the house that day and he left.”<\/p>\n
In hopes that he was on the bus, the family spent Saturday going up and down the entire Q52\u00a0route, putting\u00a0up his picture at every stop.<\/p>\n
“You keep going through thoughts of what might have happened to him – is he alive? Is he not?” Federico said.<\/p>\n
Federico says he is just hoping somebody recognizes his son, so that at minimum, they have an idea where he was going and it can help narrow down their search.<\/p>\n
“Whatever argument I had with him about it, I want to ask him to forgive me for that, and I really want to tell him that I love him,” Federico said.<\/p>\n
Anybody with any information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crimestoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family has spent over a week desperately going back and forth between Brooklyn and Queens looking for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,11896,8169,199994,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,5812,15689,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-430386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-midwood","11":"tag-missing-teen","12":"tag-missing-teenager","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-search","21":"tag-student","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115676790401706472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}