T’Montez M. Hurt was 19 years old when he was last seen on February 1, 2024, after a troubling sequence of events that began while the young Black male, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, was in the Kansas City area. Public missing-person listings connect him to St. Louis and Missouri, while reports from local news and missing-person organizations place his last known movements in Kansas City, Missouri, including the Greyhound bus station at 1101 Troost Avenue and later the area of 77th
Street and Troost Avenue. He was described in official and public reports as having black hair, brown eyes, and a tattoo on his right arm; clothing descriptions consistently say he was wearing a royal blue Price Chopper polo shirt and green or dark green sweatpants, with some reports also noting black high-top Nike shoes.
Before he disappeared, T’Montez was a young man with ties to family in St. Louis and Nashville, and he had recently been trying to build his future in Missouri. His grandmother, Tecona Donald-Sullivan, told Dateline that he had graduated high school in 2023 and returned to Missouri for college, hoping to play basketball and attend Missouri Western. When he could not afford to continue into the spring semester, he took time off to save money, living and working in Grain Valley at a Price Chopper. His family described him as loved, talented, and full of potential, a young person trying to work his way back to school rather than someone who intended to vanish from the people who cared for him.
In the early morning hours of February 1, 2024, the case took a frightening turn. Around 3:00 a.m., T’Montez contacted his grandmother by video call from an apartment in Kansas City and did not sound like himself. According to accounts from his grandmother, he sounded scared and distressed, asked her to pray for him, and said he believed he may have been “laced,” which she understood to mean that he feared he had been drugged. Alarmed by what she was hearing and seeing, she called for help from St. Louis. Police and emergency responders were sent to his location, and he was taken to Saint Luke’s Hospital for evaluation. His grandmother later said a urine test did not show drugs in his system, but she remained worried because he was still not acting like himself.
After T’Montez was discharged from the hospital, arrangements were made for him to take a taxi to the Greyhound bus station so he could return to St. Louis. That decision became the last known bridge between him and home. Reports say a zTrip taxi dropped him off at the Greyhound station near Troost Avenue late that morning, but the station was closed and he did not board a bus. Surveillance footage reportedly showed him trying to get back into the taxi after realizing he had left his phone inside, but he could not get back into the vehicle. Without his phone and without a bus to take him home, he began walking south on Troost Avenue. Police later told the family he was seen on traffic cameras near 77th Street and Troost Avenue that afternoon, still walking south, and after that there was no confirmed sign of him.
His grandmother quickly traveled from St. Louis to Kansas City, filed a missing-person report, and began searching with the urgency of someone trying to pull a loved one back from danger. She handed out flyers, placed her phone number on them in the hope that T’Montez might recognize it, canvassed along Troost Avenue, searched areas where she thought he might have gone, and continued pleading for anyone with information to come forward. His mother and other relatives also became involved in the search, with family members spreading out across the Kansas City area. Their public statements reflect fear, exhaustion, and devotion, but also their insistence that T’Montez was deeply loved and that they wanted him home safe.
Law enforcement and public agencies continued to circulate information about the case. The Missouri State Highway Patrol issued a missing adult bulletin listing T’Montez’s last contact date as February 1, 2024, and asking anyone with information to contact Troop A or the Missing Persons Clearinghouse. The Kansas City Police Department later asked for the public’s help, saying he was last seen near 12th Street and Troost Avenue around 11:40 a.m. and possibly seen near 77th Street and Troost around 1:30 p.m. that same day. His case was also described by police as active and ongoing, with detectives following leads as they came in.
The disappearance of T’Montez Hurt remains a painful and unresolved story of a 19-year-old from St. Louis whose last known day moved from a frightened call to his grandmother, to a hospital visit, to a closed bus station, and then to a long walk down Troost Avenue without his phone and without a clear path home. The known facts leave his family with agonizing questions: what happened after he was seen walking south, whether anyone encountered him afterward, and why no confirmed contact has surfaced since that afternoon. The overview of the case is that T’Montez M. Hurt, a young man trying to work and return to college, was last seen on February 1, 2024, in Kansas City after attempting to get home to St. Louis; he was distressed earlier that day, released from the hospital, dropped at a closed Greyhound station, separated from his phone, and then seen walking south on Troost Avenue, leaving his family and the public still searching for answers.Last Seen: Feb 1, 2024
