KPIX 5 News ran a story recently on a disturbing trend – 5 San Francisco teens who have gone missing in recent years, disappearing without a trace.
One of them was 19 year old Richmond District resident Sean Sidi, who disappeared 1 year and 9 months ago. On the day he disappeared, he called a family member and said he was headed to Golden Gate Park.
To this day, his family has not been able to get any concrete leads as to Sean’s whereabouts.
“It’s hard,” Lynn Ching, Sean’s mother, told KPIX. “Humans are prepared for death, but not for someone going missing.”
On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Sean called his father around 1:30pm and said he was “catching a bus to the park”. That was the last time that anyone heard from Sean, and he was last seen during a visit to a former high school teacher at the International High School on Oak Street earlier that day.
Sean’s family is especially concerned because several months before his disappearance, Sean suffered a severe traumatic brain injury that left him medically fragile.
Police traced the last ping from his phone on May 21, 2013 to an area “near and/or around Alvord Lake (Golden Gate Park), Stow Lake (Golden Gate Park), and the Inner Richmond”.
According to KPIX News, “four other young men, Crishtian Michael Hughes, Shawn Dickerson Tyler, Cameron Remmer and Jackson Miller had also gone missing in San Francisco in the three years before Sean disappeared, all about the same age as Sean. Together they became known as the California 5, and all are still gone without a trace.”
Watch the video above to get the full story.
For more information on the efforts to find Sean Sidi, visit http://www.seansidi.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/findseansidi.
Sarah B.
There was another asian man Jerry Tang who disappeared 7/8 years ago and I haven’t heard anything about him since. He is older than these teenager, but I feel very bad for the family who are close to them.
This may or not be the case with these individuals, but the fact is some young folks don’t want to be found. Many kids run away from home and come to San Francisco, and it’s likely some younger folks from San Francisco want to run away. Folks who do this don’t have to be teenagers; there’s a whole subculture of folks even into their mid-thirties who ride trains across the country and try to leave everything behind, for example (not implying that’s what happened here).
Sadly, some folks who go missing end up perishing in unusual circumstances, and no one, even the people who find them or the cops who investigate, can find out who they are. I hope they find Sean and that he’s okay, but I suspect one of two things has happened… either he has come to a sad end somewhere, or he doesn’t want to be found.
http://io9.com/eye-opening-photos-of-folks-who-illegally-hop-trains-ac-1686631513
My heart goes out to the Sidi’s and the other of the 5 families in SF missing young men of a similar age and over I believe, 3 year time span. The police say these cases aren’t related but that hasn’t been proven.
Has anyone interviewed that teacher? Seems like that’s the MacGuffin in this story, lol!
Given that family members of the missing read these comments I think we can all agree there is no “lol” about any of these missing and much loved ones, though I’m sure no harm was intended.
My friend Reggie Ruiz…was 47 but looked 20 …slight an small 5’6″-went missing 2 years ago in April..no trace..also in sanfrancisco.