Deante McCarthy, a 17-year-old male from Waynesboro, Virginia, was last seen on December 14, 2025.

Searches did turn up a later July 2026 booking record for a person named Deante Karsten McCarthy in the Waynesboro area, but that record does not verify it is the same individual who was reported missing at 17 and cannot be treated as a confirmed resolution of the December 2025 disappearance. No accessible contemporaneous news coverage or verifiable law-enforcement statement has been found that reconstructs the investigation or explains what happened after he was last seen.

The basic confirmed facts are few: his name, age, association with Waynesboro, and the December 14, 2025 last-seen date. Small details can be crucial in cases like this, and many key questions remain unanswered. If anyone has information about Deante McCarthy’s whereabouts or the circumstances of his disappearance, please share what is known.