{"id":92958,"date":"2026-01-21T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:16:10","slug":"missing-philadelphia-10-year-old-found-safe-in-chichester-after-frantic-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92958\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Philadelphia 10-year-old found safe in Chichester after frantic search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The search for a missing 10-year-old boy in Philadelphia has come to an end after police say he was located safely in Chichester.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Pennsylvania State Police on Monday night issued a Missing Endangered Person Advisory for a 10-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators said he was last seen in the area of Penrose Elementary School around 8 a.m. Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">They added that he &#8220;may be at special risk for harm or injury.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators began a frantic manhunt for the 10-year-old child after family members reported him missing on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Security footage showed the 4th grade student being dropped off by his father at Penrose Elementary School that morning, then leaving the cafeteria moments later.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;We are extremely concerned for his wellbeing,&#8221; said Captain Busa, who added that the bitter cold temperatures made the search for the child more urgent.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The family said they weren&#8217;t notified by the school of Muhammad&#8217;s absence until after-school program around 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police reported that the child was found safely in Chichester on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators have not said how the boy got from the school where he was last seen to Chichester.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The search for a missing 10-year-old boy in Philadelphia has come to an end after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,1869,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-92958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92958","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=92958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}