James Phaviseth was 16 when he disappeared from his family home in Buffalo, New York. On June 29, 2019, he told his family he was going to a friend’s house on the city’s west side; that was the last time anyone saw or heard from him. He is an Asian male with black hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and 129 pounds. He was known to often carry a small black bookbag; the clothes he wore that day are not recorded.

The Buffalo Police Department opened an investigation and entered his case into national missing-person databases. There are no publicly noted, substantive leads in the overview provided, and his family continues to seek answers. If anyone knew James, where he spent time, or has information about that June 29 trip on the west side of Buffalo, please come forward.