Blake Julian Trenton Deven was 16 when he was last seen in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the summer of 2022. His final known contact was a phone call to his mother from a local Walmart on August 1, 2022. Blake was a white male with blond hair and blue eyes and had a history of medical conditions, including static encephalopathy.

Though a considerable time passed before he was reported missing, the case moved dramatically after a November 2023 mental health crisis call to his adoptive mother’s home. During that call, a brother said he had not seen Blake in five years and remembered Blake with a broken arm. Blake’s adoptive mother, Avantae Emerald Deven, did not officially report him missing until January 19, 2024. Investigators later treated the disappearances of Blake and his adoptive sister London Deven as homicides after siblings said both children died of starvation and abuse and that Blake’s remains had been hidden; human skeletal remains found in April 2024 included London’s.

Does anyone have information about Blake’s whereabouts in 2022 or about the family’s prior residences?