Seventeen-year-old Jose Ramon Castillo Ayala was reported missing from Gatlinburg, Tennessee after he disappeared on April 9, 2023. He had traveled to the town that day with an acquaintance for a work assignment. The last reported sighting places him driving to a convenience store and then getting into a vehicle with an unknown person or people before leaving the area.

Jose is described as a Hispanic male with black hair, between 5 feet 3 inches and 6 feet tall, and weighing between 150 and 200 pounds. The Springfield Police Department in Tennessee opened an investigation, and the case was entered in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System under MP104978.

Does anyone have information about Jose’s movements in Gatlinburg on April 9, 2023, or about the vehicle he was seen entering?