T’Montez M. Hurt was 19 years old when he was last seen in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 1, 2024, a young Black male from St. Louis whose sudden disappearance left his family searching across a city where he was not at home. Reports describe him as a freshman at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, about an hour from Kansas City, and as someone his grandmother, Tecona Donald-Sullivan, was deeply connected to and immediately worried about when she heard his voice that morning.
T’Montez had black hair and brown eyes, stood about 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighed about 160 pounds, and had a tattoo of a lion on his upper right arm.
The morning he vanished began with fear and confusion. According to reporting and case summaries, T’Montez contacted his grandmother by video call around 3:00 a.m. while he was at the home of a woman he had recently met. His grandmother said he did not sound like himself; he seemed frightened, disoriented, and in distress. He reportedly told her he felt as though someone had given him something, which she understood as him saying he may have been drugged. As any grandmother would, she tried to respond quickly, and police were contacted. T’Montez was later taken to a Kansas City hospital for evaluation, but his family has said he was released after only a few hours.
After leaving the hospital, the trail shifted toward transportation and the possibility that T’Montez was trying to get back home. KSDK reported that a cab was arranged to take him to a Greyhound station so he could return to St. Louis, but when he arrived, the station was closed. Later reporting and case summaries state that surveillance showed him trying to get back into the vehicle after realizing he had left his phone inside, then walking away alone. That moment has become one of the most painful parts of the case for his family: a young man in distress, separated from his phone, far from home, and then gone from view.
Publicly available case information gives two key Kansas City areas connected to T’Montez’s disappearance. Some reporting placed his last known area near 12th Street and Troost Avenue around late morning on February 1, while NamUs-linked summaries describe him as last seen in the area of 77th Street and Troost Avenue. A later tip reportedly suggested he may have been seen near 11th Street and Grand Avenue on March 27, 2024, but that possible sighting was not confirmed. These different locations do not lessen the urgency of the case; rather, they show how difficult it has been to reconstruct T’Montez’s movements after he left care and became separated from reliable communication.
In the weeks and months after T’Montez disappeared, his grandmother searched with a persistence born from love and fear. KSDK reported that Tecona Donald-Sullivan traveled to Kansas City repeatedly, passed out more than two thousand flyers, searched alleys, rode buses, crossed into Kansas City, Kansas, and looked through places most families would never imagine having to enter. She described frustration, anger, and the unbearable question of where her grandson was. Police confirmed that T’Montez was listed as a missing person and that a report had been assigned to a case detective, while the Kansas City Police Department continued asking for the public’s help.
The search for T’Montez Hurt is the story of a 19-year-old male college student from St. Louis who disappeared in Kansas City after an alarming early-morning call, a hospital visit, and an attempted trip home that appears to have broken down at a closed bus station. He was last seen on February 1, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, with later unconfirmed information suggesting he may have been seen downtown weeks afterward. His family’s search has been urgent and deeply personal, shaped by concern that he was vulnerable, disoriented, without his phone, and far from familiar support. In overview, T’Montez’s case remains centered on the unanswered hours after his release from the hospital, the transportation to the Greyhound station, the moment he walked away alone, and the continuing plea for anyone who saw him or knows what happened to help bring clarity to his family.Last Seen: Feb 1, 2024
