{"id":222497,"date":"2026-04-07T20:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:27","slug":"purple-alert-issued-for-missing-endangered-tampa-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222497\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple alert issued for missing endangered Tampa man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 A purple alert was issued for a 20-year-old with autism and schizophrenia who was last seen leaving his Tampa home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tampa Police Department said Zachariah Robert Davis was last seen leaving his home in the 8300 block of North 13th Street at around 10:00 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zachariah is diagnosed as schizophrenic and autistic. According to officers, he functions at the cognitive level of a 12-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Credit: Tampa Police Department\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d1850699461ab11a47ec65997ce6894c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Tampa Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is 6\u20193\u2033 and weighs around 330 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zachariah was wearing a white jacket, khaki pants, and black shoes when he left home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call TPD at 813-231-6130.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHelp us reunite Zachariah with his concerned family,\u201d the Tampa Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 A purple alert was issued for a 20-year-old with autism and schizophrenia who was last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100762,39626,135,137,136,3793,100644],"class_list":["post-222497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-autism-and-schizophrenia","tag-purple-alert","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department","tag-zachariah-robert-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}