{"id":192788,"date":"2026-04-10T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:30:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-parents-of-missing-east-new-york-teen-say-theyve-received-taunting-calls-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192788\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Parents Of Missing East New York Teen Say Theyve Received Taunting Calls And Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The parents of missing 14-year-old Amir Curtis say they&#8217;ve received taunting phone calls and videos from other teens telling them where their son is.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Amir\u2019s father, Jerome Curtis, says he has even spoken directly to his son over the phone.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe tells me he\u2019s going to call me that night and tell me where my son is, and that night it never happens,&#8221; said Curtis.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The parents say that when they go to that location, their son is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis is my child. This isn\u2019t a game, this is real life,&#8221; said Shana McKinnon, Amir&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family says they received a video of Amir subway surfing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe was never into any type of stuff like this,&#8221; said Curtis.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone who might have information about the teen\u2019s location is urged to contact the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of missing 14-year-old Amir Curtis say they&#8217;ve received taunting phone calls and videos from other teens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-192788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}