Hector Marcelo Lopez was a 21-year-old man who was last seen in Denver, Colorado, on January 30, 2017. The public notice issued shortly afterward placed him in the city’s Highland neighborhood, near 38th Avenue and Eliot Street, at around 6:30 p.m. That ordinary winter evening became the last confirmed point of contact for Hector, and the concern that followed led Denver police to ask the public for help finding him.
At the time he disappeared, he was described as a male with brown hair and brown eyes, standing about 5 feet 8 or 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing approximately 180 to 185 pounds. Official case information also notes that he had a tattoo on his chest, a detail that could help distinguish him from others.
The details that have been made public are limited, but they give a clear picture of the starting point of the case. Hector’s disappearance was recorded by the Denver Police Department under agency case number 175000518, and the Colorado Cold Case Files list the case type as missing, with the incident date recorded as January 30, 2017, in Denver County. The same state case listing identifies him as Hector Marcelo Lopez, a male, with brown hair and brown eyes, and notes his chest tattoo among identifying marks. These records do not provide a detailed account of where he may have gone after being seen near 38th Avenue and Eliot Street, nor do they describe the circumstances that led up to his disappearance. What remains publicly visible is the ache of an unfinished timeline: a young man was seen in Denver, concern grew when he could not be located, and his name entered the records of people still being sought.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System lists Hector Marcelo Lopez under NamUs missing person case MP146180, with the date of last contact recorded as January 30, 2017, from Denver, Colorado. That listing supports the same core facts found in state and local reporting: Hector’s disappearance is tied to Denver, and the last known date remains the end of January 2017. The NamUs entry was created years after he was last seen, which suggests that his case continued to require public documentation and visibility well beyond the initial police appeal. No online source reviewed here states that Hector has been found alive or located deceased, so the available public record leaves the case without a publicly reported resolution.
As time passed, Hector’s case became one of the many missing-person records carried by Colorado’s public safety systems. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation explains that it serves as a central repository for missing children and adults in the state, collecting and disseminating information to help locate missing people and coordinating with state and national systems. Within that broader framework, Hector’s case stands as more than a file number or a short notice. It represents a person who had a life, a name, physical details remembered by those who knew him, and loved ones who were left without clear answers after January 30, 2017.
The available online record tells a brief but painful story from start to finish: Hector Marcelo Lopez, a 21-year-old male from the Denver case records, was last seen on January 30, 2017, near 38th Avenue and Eliot Street in Denver’s Highland neighborhood; Denver police sought the public’s help; official state records described him as a missing person with brown hair, brown eyes, a chest tattoo, and a Denver Police Department case number; and NamUs later documented him in its national missing-person database. The exact events after his last confirmed sighting remain unknown from the public sources reviewed, and the information is vague about what may have happened next. The overview of the case is that Hector Lopez disappeared from Denver, Colorado, in early 2017, his last known location was publicly identified, official agencies preserved his identifying information, and the public record does not provide a confirmed outcome.Last Seen: Jan 30, 2017
