T’Montez M. Hurt was 19 and a freshman at Missouri Western State University when he was last seen in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 1, 2024. He is a Black male from St. Louis, about 6 feet 1 inch and 160 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a lion tattoo on his upper right arm.

That morning he video-called his grandmother around 3:00 a.m. from the home of a woman he had recently met; he sounded frightened, disoriented and said he felt as though someone had given him something. Police were contacted and he was taken to a Kansas City hospital for evaluation, then reportedly released after a few hours. A cab was arranged to take him to the Greyhound station to return to St. Louis, but the station was closed. Surveillance shows him trying to reenter the cab after leaving his phone inside, then walking away alone. Reports place his last known area variously near 12th Street and Troost, or 77th Street and Troost; an unconfirmed tip later suggested a sighting near 11th Street and Grand Avenue on March 27, 2024.

The Kansas City Police Department lists him as missing and a detective has been assigned. His grandmother has searched the city extensively and passed out thousands of flyers. If anyone saw T’Montez on or after February 1, 2024, or has information about his movements that morning, please come forward.