In honor of Black History Month I’m profiling one African-American MP every day on this blog for the month of February. Today’s case is Wayne Kareem Goff, a 17-year-old boy who disappeared from Mattapan, Massachusetts on May 20, 1997.
I don’t have much on Wayne. NamUs has a fingerprint card for him, as he was arrested just three days before he went missing; I don’t know why he was arrested or if this had anything to do with his disappearance. He does have a tattoo saying something like “Hill Boyz” which made me wonder if that was the name of a gang, but I don’t know squat about gangs and Google turned up nothing.
Wayne was listed as a runaway with the NCMEC for quite a long time after he went missing, but now he’s listed as endangered missing. I don’t know why they changed the classification; it can’t be just the length of time, because other people missing as long as Wayne are still listed as runaways. In practice it makes no difference.
If he’s still alive, Wayne would now be 39. He was born in Belize.
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