Missing
Tyrone Lydell Bryant
Bryant, approximately 2001
Date and time person was reported missing : 10/31/2001
Missing location (approx) :
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 01/29/1979 (42)
Age at the time of disappearance: 22 years old
Height / Weight : 5'11, 135 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Possibly a gold wedding band and white sneakers.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Bryant's left ear is pierced. He has a horizontal scar on the bottom of his left elbow. Bryant has a tattoo of the word "Troop" on his upper left bicep. The words "Bryant Family Tree" are tattooed on his back; the phrase has branches extending from it with the names "Tyrone Bryant," "Bethany Bryant," and "Javin Bryant" written in black on the branches. Bryant's nickname is Ty-Tone.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Bryant was last seen at his residence in the vicinity of the 2800 block of Lafayette Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has never been heard from again.
Bryant grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He got involved with gangs and began using and selling drugs as a teenAge at the time of disappearance: r. He moved to Fort Wayne at Age at the time of disappearance: nineteen and was arrested several times in the next three years on drug and weapons charges. He had a warrant out for his arrest for probation violation at the time of his disappearance.
His family reported him missing in May 2002 after months passed without contact from him. Police initially believed he'd left of his own accord to escape arrest, but his loved ones stated it was uncharacteristic of him to be out of touch with them.
Bryant was estranged from his wife and living with a girlfriend at the time of his disappearance. In 2006, his girlfriend took her own life. She left several suicide notes. One of them stated she and Bryant got into an argument, she called someone, and that individual came over and killed Bryant. His girlfriend wrote that she and the other person disposed of the body together and it would never be located. The suicide notes didn't identify the alleged killer or specify when Bryant was killed or where his body was.
The house Bryant shared with his girlfriend in 2001 has since been demolished. Foul play is suspected in his disappearance, which remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Fort Wayne Police Department
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September 2021 updates and sources
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2�5% of missing children in Europe.
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