Demetrius L. Grimes was a 20-year-old male who was last seen on May 14, 2019, in University City, Missouri. Publicly available missing-person information identifies him as a Black male with black hair and brown eyes; his height and weight were not listed in the source that summarized his case. He was born on July 5, 1998, and when he disappeared he was at an age when many young adults are still building the shape of their lives, their routines, and their futures. The known public record begins and centers on that May day in University City, where Demetrius was last reported seen before contact with him stopped.
The details released online about the circumstances of Demetrius’s disappearance are very limited. The publicly available case summary states that he was last seen in University City on May 14, 2019, and that he had not been seen or heard from afterward. No public account located in the cited online sources describes what he was doing that day, who last saw him, what clothing he may have been wearing, whether he had a vehicle or phone with him, or whether there were any known medical, personal, or travel-related factors connected to his disappearance. That absence of detail leaves the case with a painful quietness: a young man was present in his community, then the trail made public to others simply stops.
Missouri’s statewide missing-person search system explains that its posted missing-person information is derived from the National Crime Information Center through the investigating agency and is updated automatically, and it directs people seeking further information to contact the investigating agency. The Missouri State Highway Patrol missing-person page also lists University City Police Department among Missouri investigating agencies included in its search system. In Demetrius’s publicly shared case summary, anyone with information about him or his disappearance was directed to contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol at 800-877-3452.
Demetrius’s name also appeared in a June 2020 update archive from The Charley Project, showing that his case had been added or noted among missing-person case updates roughly a year after he was last seen. The individual case page referenced by another online source was not accessible through the current lookup, so the available online record remains sparse rather than expansive. What can be said with care is that Demetrius L. Grimes, a 20-year-old Black male, was last seen on May 14, 2019, in University City, Missouri; he was described as having black hair and brown eyes; few circumstances have been publicly released; and the case, as presented in the available online sources, is defined by the urgent need for information that could explain what happened after he was last seen.
Last Seen: May 14, 2019
