{"id":198161,"date":"2026-05-20T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:56:07","slug":"missing-endangered-police-ask-for-help-finding-boy-last-seen-in-swissvale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198161\/","title":{"rendered":"MISSING &#038; ENDANGERED: Police ask for help finding boy last seen in Swissvale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">SWISSVALE, Pa. \u2014 State police and the Swissvale-Braddock Hills Regional Police Department are asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a missing boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Romario Smith, 12, was last seen in the 2100 block of South Braddock Avenue in Swissvale around 8 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Romario is described as 4 feet, 11 inches tall, weighing 120 pounds and having black hair and brown eyes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say Romario \u201cmay be at special risk of harm or injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Swissvale-Braddock Hills Police Department at 412-473-3056.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWISSVALE, Pa. \u2014 State police and the Swissvale-Braddock Hills Regional Police Department are asking for the public\u2019s help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10924,10925,41955,87972,87971,4125,60316,56497,73,75,74,487,10939],"class_list":["post-198161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-braddock","tag-braddock-hills","tag-endangered","tag-endangered-boy","tag-mepa","tag-missing","tag-missing-and-endangered","tag-missing-boy","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-state-police","tag-swissvale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}