On August 22, 2025, 14-year-old Aaliyah Heredia, a Hispanic female from Brighton, Colorado, was last seen on foot at about 7:20 p.m. in the area of 300 Grey Rock Street. Authorities described her as 5 feet 2 inches tall and about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was reportedly wearing gray pants and a black T-shirt and carrying a black backpack when she was last seen.
Aaliyah also had a distinctive butterfly tattoo on her right hand, a detail released publicly so that anyone who saw her might be able to recognize her and respond quickly.
The concern around Aaliyah’s disappearance was immediate and serious. The Brighton Police Department requested public help, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Missing Alert. The alert stated that Aaliyah had a cognitive impairment, which heightened fears for her safety and made the hours after she was last seen especially urgent. The public messaging focused on the known facts: her age, her last known location, what she was wearing, how she might be identified, and the need for anyone with information to contact law enforcement rather than waiting or assuming a detail was too small to matter.
As word spread beyond the initial alert, local reporting repeated the same core information and emphasized that Brighton authorities were actively searching for a missing teenager who could be in danger. The reports described Aaliyah as endangered and noted that she had last been seen near 300 Grey Rock Street on the evening of August 22. They also repeated the public safety appeal: anyone who saw her or knew anything about where she might be was asked to call 911 or the Brighton Police Department. No detailed public explanation of the circumstances leading up to her disappearance was released in the sources reviewed, leaving the public record focused mainly on locating her and identifying her safely.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children also circulated a missing-child poster for Aaliyah, listing Brighton, Colorado, as the place she was missing from and August 22, 2025, as the missing date. That poster likewise noted that Aaliyah had a tattoo on her right hand, reinforcing the same identifying feature shared by Colorado authorities. Another missing-child listing described her as 14 years old, female, Hispanic, with brown hair and brown eyes, and repeated that she was missing from Brighton, Colorado.
In the days and weeks after Aaliyah was reported missing, public notices continued to frame the case as an urgent appeal for help. A later local notice stated that she was still missing weeks after she disappeared, again pointing to her cognitive impairment, her butterfly tattoo, her clothing, her black backpack, and her last known location near 300 Grey Rock Street. The available online sources reviewed did not provide a clear public resolution or explain what happened after the alerts were issued. The known overview of the case is that Aaliyah Heredia was a 14-year-old Hispanic girl last seen on foot in Brighton, Colorado, on August 22, 2025; authorities considered her endangered, released identifying details to the public, and asked anyone with information to contact 911 or Brighton police so she could be found and brought safely home.Last Seen: Aug 22, 2025
