TX HOUSTON JOHN DOE: HM, 13-19, found in bus parking area in Houston, TX - 10 January 2022

• Date Found
• Jan 10, 2022
• • Location Found
  • Houston, TX
• • Estimated Age
  • 13-19
• • Sex
  • Male
• • Race
  • Hispanic
• • Hair Color
  • Black
• • Eye Color
  • Brown
• • Estimated Height
  • 5'1"
• • Estimated Weight
  • 112 lbs

On January 10, 2022, an unidentified male was found unresponsive in an abandoned bus at 6260 West Park Drive in Houston, Texas. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he passed away shortly thereafter. He is described to be 13-19 years old at the time of his death. He had black hair, brown eyes, stood approximately 5'1 tall, and weighed around 112 pounds. He had a "star" shaved into the side of his head as a stylistic hairstyle choice. He was found wearing Black "Adidas" athletic pants with white stripes down the leg; teal boxer-style underwear; black socks; short white socks with "H-TOWN" written along the top in red, and blue and black high-top sneakers- size 6.5.

attached is a digital reconstruction of what this young man might have looked like during life, and a post-mortem.


ADDED MEDIA LINK: #JohnDoe was found unresponsive in an abandoned bus at 6260 West Park Drive in Houston, Texas in January of 2022. WHO WAS HE?

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Thanks for the thread, ariel.

Please include links when starting threads so we can have a source for the information. (I also removed the post-mortem photo from the OP. We like to give our members a choice on whether or not to look at those, so you can link to them or post with a spoiler cover (the following tag minus the spaces) [ spoiler ] Image Here [ /spoiler ] Thank you!

NCMEC -

Have you seen this child? John Doe 2022

Missing From: Houston, TX. Missing Date: January 10, 2022. On January 10, 2022, an unidentified male was found unresponsive in an abandoned bus at 6260 West Park Drive in Houston, Texas. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he expired shortly thereafter. He is described to be 13-19...

www.missingkids.org

NamUs - POSTMORTEM AT LINK The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Unidentified Wiki -

Harris County John Doe (January 2022)

Harris County John Doe was a teenager or young adult who was discovered in an unattended bus parked near an office building and subsequently expired after being transported for medical treatment. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the area around the bus was known as a loitering...

unidentified-awareness.fandom.com

 

[ariel]

oh! im sorry, i completely forgot the links. ill remember the PM thing next time. im so sorry!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

oh! im sorry, i completely forgot the links. ill remember the PM thing next time. im so sorry!

Not a problem! Just wanted to remind you as a new poster! <3

I saw this young man's picture the other day. Thanks for posting his case.

 

[ariel]

alright, so, where do we all start with this one?

 

[Sunburst]

alright, so, where do we all start with this one?

Welcome! Are you familiar with NAMUS? (North American Missing Undentified Subjects) ? Do you know who has been ruled out as being John Doe?
BTW, Namus does not list Canadians 99.9 percent of cases. There have been a few UIDs where people have suggested a missing Canadian repeatedly .

 

[ariel]

Welcome! Are you familiar with NAMUS? (North American Missing Undentified Subjects) ? Do you know who has been ruled out as being John Doe?
BTW, Namus does not list Canadians 99.9 percent of cases. There have been a few UIDs where people have suggested a missing Canadian repeatedly .

yes! i work on a NamUs based jane doe map, its a very useful site this case has a thread on WS but i dont know how to get the traction that it got. there has been possibilities, but nobody has been ruled out. ill try to go find some names of missing teens that we think might be our doe. ill follow up in just a second

 

[Mel70]

He looks like the lower end of the age range. Young. I would say not more than 16. And that maybe he wasn't done growing yet based on 5'1 and 112 lbs. That's my size. So based on that, Maybe closer to 13-14. And no one misses this young man?.

 

[Mel70]

His picture makes me further think he was very young. No cause of death?. He died at the hospital. They didn't bother?.

 

[ariel]

His picture makes me further think he was very young. No cause of death?. He died at the hospital. They didn't bother?.

well, his cause of death is suicide. i dont remember if that was fact or speculation but theres a very high chance that he hung himself. i think hes on the younger side of his estimated age (13-16). he had that shaved star which is popular with younger kids, but he also had that Edgar haircut which is more popular in mid-age to older teens. i still think hes younger than we think, though. he did die shortly after he arrived at that hospital):

 

[Mel70]

It's very sad that someone so young can be suicidal. But I have been there myself, Starting as a teenager. You're still growing up, Learning about life, Thinking you know it all though. And depression comes and you don't know WTH is going on.

 

[Mel70]

Welcome! Are you familiar with NAMUS? (North American Missing Undentified Subjects) ? Do you know who has been ruled out as being John Doe?
BTW, Namus does not list Canadians 99.9 percent of cases. There have been a few UIDs where people have suggested a missing Canadian repeatedly .

Canada doesn't have their own system?. Really?. WTH?.I guess where a life sentence is 30 yrs and they release Carla Homolka. Yeah. That's to the justice system, Not aimed at it's citizens.

 

[ariel]

It's very sad that someone so young can be suicidal. But I have been there myself, Starting as a teenager. You're still growing up, Learning about life, Thinking you know it all though. And depression comes and you don't know WTH is going on.

it really is sad): but the best part about what we do is bringing closure and justice to the unnamed. so let's do it! its currently 2AM where i am, so im gonna have to get these people of interest found and posted in a few hours because ive got some things to do in the morning. but in the meantime, can anyone go find some missing teens 13-16 that could be him? (Houston, Hispanic, all the characteristics.). yall are amazing

 

[GrandmaBear]

well, his cause of death is suicide. i dont remember if that was fact or speculation but theres a very high chance that he hung himself. i think hes on the younger side of his estimated age (13-16). he had that shaved star which is popular with younger kids, but he also had that Edgar haircut which is more popular in mid-age to older teens. i still think hes younger than we think, though. he did die shortly after he arrived at that hospital):

This one was unresponsive on an abandoned bus wasn't he? I don't see anything about hanging? And if so, he must have been found quickly by someone because he was alive yet and died at hospital.

It says the bus was untended and parked near an office building in a spot well known for loitering. My guess would be he was assaulted although I guess he also could have overdosed or been sick but that seems less likely to me than foul play. Just based on bare details though/speculation on my part.

 

[Guess Who]

This one was unresponsive on an abandoned bus wasn't he? I don't see anything about hanging? And if so, he must have been found quickly by someone because he was alive yet and died at hospital.

It says the bus was untended and parked near an office building in a spot well known for loitering. My guess would be he was assaulted although I guess he also could have overdosed or been sick but that seems less likely to me than foul play. Just based on bare details though/speculation on my part.

I was thinking overdose, myself.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I was thinking overdose, myself.

My thought is that or a party situation where someone else may have contributed, been responsible, provided drugs or assaulted. Two reasons are the area is mentioned for loitering and someone found him in this untended bus or called it in pretty quickly I imagine. If he died at hospital, it is unlikely he was lingering unconscious in the bus for days on end. So someone else was probably present or more than one... Not much detail on the "bus" either. Public bus? City bus? Greyhound? Shuttle? Tourist bus? School bus? This was a Monday, January 10th. Depending on his age, should he have been in school? And of course there is always the chance he was undocumented/illegal, that alone would explain the difficulty in determining identity.

 

[GrandmaBear]

They should have provided the pic to salons, etc. in the area. A cut like that grows in pretty fast so I'd say it was fairly recent if still pretty clean shaven.

 

[ariel]

This one was unresponsive on an abandoned bus wasn't he? I don't see anything about hanging? And if so, he must have been found quickly by someone because he was alive yet and died at hospital.

It says the bus was untended and parked near an office building in a spot well known for loitering. My guess would be he was assaulted although I guess he also could have overdosed or been sick but that seems less likely to me than foul play. Just based on bare details though/speculation on my part.

he had some laceration on his neck that is pretty exclusive to victims of suicide by hanging. I'm pretty sure the report said he had hanged himself? ill have to go look through it. there wasn't anything found in his system so he didn't overdose and there were no signs of him being assaulted in any way (thank god, best news in this case so far.). he was found pretty quickly. i think a passerby found him. he was probably a runaway because its pretty common for runaways to commit suicide if they think they are going to be found by their family.

 

[ariel]

They should have provided the pic to salons, etc. in the area. A cut like that grows in pretty fast so I'd say it was fairly recent if still pretty clean shaven.

he actually still had shavings of his own hair around his ears so it was in fact very fresh. and that's a really good idea! I don't think it's too late to show local barbers that. ill contact whos in charge of it and ask about that

 

[ariel]

My thought is that or a party situation where someone else may have contributed, been responsible, provided drugs or assaulted. Two reasons are the area is mentioned for loitering and someone found him in this untended bus or called it in pretty quickly I imagine. If he died at hospital, it is unlikely he was lingering unconscious in the bus for days on end. So someone else was probably present or more than one... Not much detail on the "bus" either. Public bus? City bus? Greyhound? Shuttle? Tourist bus? School bus? This was a Monday, January 10th. Depending on his age, should he have been in school? And of course there is always the chance he was undocumented/illegal, that alone would explain the difficulty in determining identity.

it was a public shuttle-type bus. i think it would be a good idea to check nearby schools but at the same time if he was going to school someone would have recognized him. do you think there was any Spanish translation for the public?