Missing 7-Year-Old Child Found

Philadelphia Police announce a missing 7-year-old child was located shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday morning.

Braheem Amaker was found "in good condition and will be reunited with his family," according to Christine O'Brien of the Philadelphia Police Department. Further details were not made available.

Amaker was playing outside at 54th and Vine Streets Saturday night and he went missing not long after. He went inside a relative's home with his mother just after 9 p.m. His mother went into the bathroom. When she came out, she began looking for him. A child witness said he saw Amaker walk down the street. 

Amaker is 3-feet tall, 50 pounds with light brown skin and short curly hair. He was wearing jeans, a blue, green and white plaid shirt, and white and blue sneakers at the time he went missing.

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