Quintez Brown, a Louisville writer & activist, went missing on June 19, when he was asked to leave Algonquin Park Pool in West Louisville by Louisville Metropolitan Police Department. Now his family is seeking out the community for help in finding him.
According to WLKY, there have been two reports that indicate Brown was spotted at a Subway last Sunday and the Franciscan Kitchen shelter on Tuesday, but neither tip has led to him coming home.
The Courier-Journal reported that Brown was also an MLK scholar at the University of Louisville and heavily involved with youth violence prevention and political education efforts.
Brown’s father and stepmother spoke to the greater Louisville community during a press conference on June 24.
“If you do see him, don’t let him go,” Jacobe Daughtery, his father, said as he shook his head. “Stay right there and call. … I’ll be there in two minutes. I’ll be there.”
Groups of volunteers have gone out into the community handing out flyers to alert people of Brown’s disappearance.
“He’s family-oriented, he communicates well with his family about his whereabouts, and this is just not normal,” his grandmother Tanya Hyde said.
While Brown’s stepmother speculated he could be having a mental break, the family was unaware of any history of mental health issues.
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“He is a young man who is like so many who are conscious of the challenges in our community, in our country. He’s burdened by all of the things that are wrong, and he is … fine and good,” stepmother Stephanie Daugherty said.
“So we need to make sure that we get that word out and that he is a priority person to us, and we want every resource available to be used to help find him.”
“If he would come home, we could figure out anything that we need to together.”
“But we can’t do it if we can’t see, and we can’t touch him. We just want him home, so we can figure out how to fix whatever was broken,” she added.
