Esmerelda Kit Mora, a 17-year-old Indigenous and Hispanic teenager who used they/them pronouns, is listed as missing from Omak, Washington. The official disappearance date is April 15, 2022, when their biological mother reported Kit as a runaway. Kit’s adoptive great-grandparents and friends, however, say they had no contact with Kit after November 2021 and that Kit’s social media went silent that month.

Kit had moved from Yakima to Omak in June 2021 to reconnect with their biological mother and siblings. Their adoptive family had requested a welfare check in November 2021; police reported that Kit came to the door and said they were safe, but questions remain about that interaction. After a friend searched in late September 2022, police conducted another welfare check; at that time the biological mother said Kit had run away and she believed Kit had returned to Yakima. Searches of the biological mother’s former residence and a vehicle have been carried out, and the Washington State Attorney General’s Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit is involved.

Kit is remembered as kindhearted, quiet, and artistic. If anyone knew Kit’s movements in late 2021 or has information about their whereabouts, please come forward.