Hassani Campbell was 5 years old and used ankle braces to help him walk when he vanished from Oakland’s Rockridge district on August 10, 2009. He was last seen in a parking lot behind a shoe store where his foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, worked; his foster father, Louis Ross, says he left Hassani by the car while taking Hassani’s younger sister inside the store and returned to find the boy gone. Hassani had been living with Jennifer and Louis since December 2008; the couple were his foster parents and had planned to adopt him and his sister Aaliyah.

Investigators conducted extensive searches around the area but found no trace of Hassani. Suspicion later fell on the foster parents after inconsistent statements and a failed polygraph by Louis, and a threatening text from Louis before the disappearance was uncovered. Both adults were arrested on suspicion of murder and then released for lack of evidence. Authorities suspect foul play but Hassani has not been found and no one has been charged.

If anyone has information about Hassani’s movements on August 10, 2009, or remembers seeing him in Rockridge that day, please come forward.