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Missing since Wednesday, 11-year-old Jay’Viea Hurt found safe, Kansas City police say

A young boy missing since Wednesday has been found, Kansas City police said.

Jay’Viea Hurt, 11, went missing around 4 p.m. Wednesday after he was last seen in the area of East 63rd Street and College Avenue in the city’s South Town Fork Creek neighborhood, Sgt. Jake Becchina, a department spokesman, said at the time.

The Kansas City Police Department put out a renewed call for help to the public Friday to find Jay’Viea.

At about 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Becchina in an update said Jay’Viea had been found and is safe.

Anna Spoerre
The Kansas City Star
Anna Spoerre covers breaking news for the Kansas City Star. Before joining The Star in 2020, she covered crime and courts for the Des Moines Register. Spoerre is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she studied journalism.
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