Yamil A. Melendez-Ortiz was 39 when he vanished from his home in Zion, Illinois, in spring 2020. He was last seen walking away from his family’s residence on the 3200 block of Enoch Avenue on April 23, dressed in a white sweatshirt and possibly with a belt wrapped around his head. He left without his phone, wallet, or any money, and his family reported him missing to the Zion Police Department on April 26, 2020.

Yamil is described as a Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 200 pounds. The Zion Police Department’s Investigations Division has treated him as endangered, though public information does not detail why. Community registries and national missing-person databases list his case as active.

If anyone in Zion or the surrounding area saw Yamil on or after April 23, 2020, or has information about his whereabouts, please come forward to the Zion Police Department.