Seventeen-year-old Jayden Strader was last seen in Charlotte on September 23, 2025. He is described as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 415 pounds.

Reports say Jayden left home headed to an unknown destination. Investigators with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department believed he might still be in the Charlotte area but also considered the possibility he could travel to Bethel, North Carolina, elsewhere in the state, Virginia, or Washington, D.C. His case has been entered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Very few details have been made public about what he was wearing or other circumstances of his disappearance. If anyone has information about Jayden Strader’s whereabouts or saw him after September 23, 2025, please contact the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Missing Person Unit.