Rashaad Zakee Ameer was a 31-year-old Black male who was last seen on September 9, 2022, in Vinita Park, Missouri. Public missing-person records described him as 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, and listed his case as a missing-person matter investigated through the Vinita Park Police Department. The details publicly available about the day he disappeared are limited: online case information states only that he was last seen in Vinita Park and was
never heard from again, leaving those who cared about him with very few answers in the public record.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s missing-person system explains that its online missing-person information is drawn from the National Crime Information Center through the investigating agency, and that the public should contact the investigating agency for further information. In Rashaad’s case, the investigating agency listed in online missing-person records was the Vinita Park Police Department. That limited public footprint means there is no detailed online account describing where in Vinita Park he was last seen, who last had contact with him, what he may have been wearing, or what circumstances first caused concern. What remains publicly documented is the painful center of the case: a young man in his early thirties disappeared from the St. Louis County area, and the available record offered little explanation for his absence.
As the case stood in public missing-person listings, Rashaad’s disappearance was starkly brief in its known facts. He was identified by name, age, gender, race, physical description, last-seen date, and last-seen city, but few surrounding circumstances were made public. The Charley Project’s case summary notes that he had not been heard from again after September 9, 2022, and that few details were available. That absence of detail is itself an important part of the story, because cases with limited public information can leave families and communities carrying uncertainty without a clear timeline, an explanation, or a widely available account of the search.
Later public memorial information identifies Rashaad Zakee Ahmad Ameer, age 31, as having been lost to gun violence on December 30, 2022, in Pine Lawn, Missouri. Because that online memorial record identifies him as deceased, this should no longer be treated as an active missing-person case based on the public information available. The memorial page also contains personal remembrances describing him in affectionate terms, including references to love, grief, and being missed, reflecting that beyond the sparse case record was a man whose life mattered deeply to the people who knew him.
Rashaad’s case began publicly as the disappearance of a 31-year-old man last seen in Vinita Park, Missouri, on September 9, 2022, with the Vinita Park Police Department listed as the investigating agency and only a short set of identifying details available to the public. The record then shifts from a missing-person entry with few known circumstances to a public memorial noting that he died on December 30, 2022, in Pine Lawn, Missouri. In overview, the case is a brief but heartbreaking public record: Rashaad Zakee Ameer disappeared from Vinita Park, the publicly available missing-person details remained limited, and later online memorial information indicates that he was deceased, leaving behind family, friends, and community members to remember a life cut short and to carry the grief of unanswered questions.Last Seen: Sep 9, 2022
