Hasanni Campbell -- Missing 8/10/09

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Oakland Police shut down a two block area in North Oakland to search for a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, wearing leg braces.

In Oakland a disabled 5-year-old boy is missing. Little Hasanni Campbell was last seen in the Rockridge District.
On College Avenue, near Claremont in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, police focused on the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store where it all began.
Police say the missing boy's father told them he pulled up to behind the building to let his son in the back door because the boy has cerebral palsy and can't walk well. The father reportedly walked around to the front of the store, went through it and when he opened the back door, the boy was missing from his car seat. Police say the boy's father called 911 around 4 p.m. and a search started immediately for Hasanni.
He is a 5-year-old African-American boy with a light complexion. He's three feet tall and weighs 40 pounds, but the most notable description is his leg braces on the outside of his gray sweat pants. Police say they have a Spiderman design on them.
Six search and rescue dogs were given the boy's scent from a swab that was wiped on his seat in the father's car. Helicopters, neighbors and police combed a two block area and College Avenue was shut down for more than five hours. Near the shoe store is a busy restaurant where customers were sitting outside.
"Immediately there were five or six cop cars right after that. It was pretty quick and a number of our regular customers went out to see if they could find the little boy," says restaurant manager Elizabeth Arthur.
"There was a lot of foot traffic here and there was a lot of vehicle traffic. There's a business right here that had a lot of people outside and it's one of the first places I went and asked people if they saw him and they said, no they didn't see him. It's kind of notable to see a young man walking around with braces on his legs and nobody saw him," says Oakland Police Sgt. Richard Vierra.
Hasanni's father's car is being processed as part of the crime scene because police believe they could be dealing with an abduction. The initial search went on for over a solid seven hours on Monday night and the investigation continues.

Reward Offered For Missing Boy With Cerebral Palsy
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Oakland authorities are offering a reward for information they hope will help them find a missing 5-year-old boy.

Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland announced a reward of up to $10,000 Monday for information leading to the whereabouts of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.

The boy has been missing since Aug. 10. when his foster father, Louis Ross, left him in a car parked outside a shoe store where his foster mother works.

Ross told authorities that he left the car to unlock the store door to give Hasanni, who wears braces on his legs due to cerebral palsy, easier access. Hasanni was gone when he returned.

Oakland police say they have received less than 50 tips in the case.



Reward Offered in Missing Child Case
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By Jessica Greene
NBCBayArea.com
updated 10:20 p.m. ET, Mon., Aug 17, 2009

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.

Also Monday, Oakland police announced a $10,000 reward was being offered to anyone with information leading his whereabouts.

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.

Reward offered in Calif. missing boy case

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland authorities are offering a reward for information they hope will help them find a missing 5-year-old boy.

Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland announced a reward of up to $10,000 Monday for information leading to the whereabouts of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.

The boy has been missing since Aug. 10, when his foster father, Louis Ross, left him in a car parked outside a shoe store where his foster mother works.

Ross told authorities that he left the car to unlock the store door to give Hasanni, who wears braces on his legs, easier access. Hasanni was gone when he returned.

Oakland police say they have received fewer than 50 tips in the case.

Searchers Scour New Area for Hassani
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About a dozen people dropped everything Tuesday and started a new search for the missing Bay Area child.

Hassani Campbell, 5, hasn't been seen since August. His foster father reported him missing after he said he left him for a short time in an unlocked car while he went inside a shoe store in the Rockridge area of Oakland.

Sherri-Lynn Miller tells NBC Bay Area a well known psychic told her that Hassani Campbell is somewhere in Mt. Diablo Park.

The word from a psychic was enough for a group of dedicated people, most who have never met the little boy, to stop what they were doing and hit the road late Tuesday afternoon.

Oakland police say they are not taking part in the search. Miller and her search party are only armed with flashlights Tuesday night and they say they won't let darkness stop them.

Miller is the owner of a shirt shop in San Leandro and has become the defacto leader of the dwindling group of people hoping to find the boy. His relatives often don't even show up for searches or memorials in his honor.

Miller said they will search an area off Marsh Creek road. She said the psychic gave her a very specific location and surroundings where the boy's body would be found. Miller said the pyschic called them out of the blue with the tip.

Hassani's foster parents were initially arrested in the case, but Oakland police then released them.

The news media just learned Monday that the foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, recently moved out of the Bay Area.

What happened to Hasanni?

By Kristin Bender
Oakland Tribune
Updated: 08/09/2010 08:51:24 AM PDT

When Ronald Hughes talks about the August 2009 disappearance of his son, Hasanni Campbell, he says he is "hopeful" the boy will be found. He talks optimistically about two reported sightings of the boy who disappeared when he was 5 years old, both of which turned out to be false leads.

Every year, 800,000 children younger than 18 are reported missing, an average of about 2,200 every day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. Of the children who are eventually found, about 200,000 were taken by family members, while about 58,000 were abducted by someone outside the family, the organization reports. The whereabouts of the
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remainder of the children are uncertain.

Still, parents, grandparents, friends and community members hold out hope that their missing child will be brought home someday. And someday soon.

Hasanni goes missing

"My thoughts are that (Hasanni) was kidnapped and I still have hope of finding him. I know somebody knows something," said Pamela Clarke, the boy's grandmother, who lives in San Francisco. In the past year, there have been at least a dozen searches for the boy, all of which turned up empty.

Hasanni was reported missing on the afternoon of Aug. 10, 2009, by his then-foster father Louis Ross. Ross, now 39, told Oakland police he left the child alone in a back driveway when he went to the front of Shuz of Rockridge on College Avenue in Oakland to alert his girlfriend, Jennifer Campbell, the boy's aunt and then-foster mother, that he had arrived to drop off Hasanni and the boy's 1-year-old sister.

Ross told police that when he returned, Hasanni, who was born with cerebral palsy and wore braces on his feet, was gone from the driveway where Ross had parked his 2002 BMW. No one in the neighborhood who was interviewed by police said they saw the boy. Police said it would have been nearly impossible for him to run off, considering the disability. Ross later told authorities the child was left in the car, not outside the car, according to court records.

About three weeks after the boy was reported missing, Ross and Campbell were arrested on suspicion of murder. They were released three days later because Alameda County prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to file charges. Outside Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Ross pledged, "As long as I have got breath in my body, we will search for Hasanni." Five months later, the couple moved from their rented Fremont home.

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Yet another vigil for a child who is gone........ kh

I wonder whatever happened to him...and just what LE has done to investigate his disappearance...Seems that this case just fell thru the cracks...I can't believe that he just evaporated...

Replica 'Back to Future' DeLorean among Jacksonville stop for missing children run

Actor Kevyn Major Howard and co-driver Tim Colceri are competing in the Angel-1 Camaro that carries the names of the victims of hijacked Flight 77 and the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Howard, an actor who has appeared in films like “Full Metal Jacket,” also founded Fueled by the Fallen. That non-profit agency commemorates the military and public safety officials who died in the terrorist attacks and the wars that followed on drag race cars and five new “Angel” Camaros. His car has hundreds of posters for Hassani Campbell, a 7-year-old Oakland, Calif. boy missing since Aug. 10, 2009.
“Absolute exposure is the best thing I can do for these Angel cars because I am, hoping and promising to America that we will not forget, that we need to remember,” he said. “ ... The adventurally is a way we can say hello to a lot of people in this nation, let them touch the names on these cars, let them reflect.”
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-09-26/story/replica-back-future-delorean-among-jacksonville-stop-missing-children#ixzz1Z6zO6D00