Crime & Safety
Update: 12-Year-Old Missing Boy Returns Home
Alejandro Medina, reported missing last night, has safely returned home.
UPDATE - At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Cobb County Police reported that Alejandro Medina had returned home in good condition.
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A 12-year-old Cobb County boy is missing after he never made it home from a friend’s apartment Monday evening.
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With the day off from , Alejandro Medina spent the afternoon at the friend’s home at the Harmony Falls Apartments on Smyrna-Powder Springs Road in Smyrna.
He talked to his mother on the phone about 6:30 p.m. and left roughly 30 minutes later to walk slightly more than a mile to his home at the Harmony Springs Apartments on Personality Parkway south of the city of Marietta and west of Smyrna.
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Alejandro never arrived.
The Crimes Against Children Unit is trying to find Alejandro, who is described as 5-foot-1, 90 to 100 pounds, with a semi-Mohawk haircut. When he left for home, he wore a long-sleeve, gray T-shirt, a Tony Hawk hooded sweatshirt, plaid shorts, and blue-and-black Nike sneakers.
Anyone who has seen Alejandro or has information about his location is asked to call the Cobb police at 770-499-3911.
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