Missing poster seen in Bishop Arts. Kaylin went missing from an East Dallas apartment.
The family of 13-year-old Kaylin Rodriguez has been posting “missing” fliers around Dallas. According to the posters, the juvenile disappeared one week ago after leaving the Claremont Apartments in East Dallas, 2742 Highland Road.
She is described as 5’7, 160 pounds, with brown eyes and dark hair.
Kaylin was last seen at about 9:30 a.m. March 1 wearing a black hoodie over a pink top with khaki shorts, according to the poster. She had on a white and turquoise baseball cap with the anime character Demon Slayer and dangling earrings of the style the character wears. She was alone and carrying her school laptop.
A member of the Ferguson Road Initiative three days ago posted on Facebook that they met Kaylin’s aunt as she was hanging the “missing” signs, which are all over Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff as well as around East Dallas. According to the FRI post, Kaylin was into gaming and anime and was homeschooled.
The aunt reportedly told police there was a disturbing direct message in Kaylin’s gaming account, but that they have no other leads.
The signs ask anyone with any knowledge of Kaylin’s whereabout to contact 214.671.4268, which is the number to the Dallas Police Department’s Youth Operations Unit.
The DPD’s public information officer told us the case is documented as runaway/missing person, that the Missing Persons Unit is investigating and that Kaylin has not been located.
Below is a photo from a second flier.
It is hard to look at Kaylin’s poster without thinking of another recent suspected runaway, Oak Cliff’s Venus Rodriguez (not related to Kaylin as far as anyone knows) whose family reported her missing just before her 16th birthday.
Venus was found dead from multiple gunshots last January.
Venus’ family told Advocate reporter Emma Ruby that, in the four months Venus was missing, they were beyond frustrated by what they saw as a lack of urgency from police.
“They just kept telling us they would look into it, and they would look into it. And now four months later, she’s gone. To me, if they had different laws for runaways, stuff like this wouldn’t happen to kids,” Venus’ uncle said at the time.
Please share and call police at 214.671.4268 or 911 if you know where Kaylin is.
