On June 17, 2025, 16-year-old Avory Goldman, a male teenager, was reported missing from Phoenix, Arizona. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children lists Phoenix as the city from which Avory disappeared and identifies June 17 as the date he went missing. His case was entered into the national missing-child system under NCMEC case number 2053955 and NCIC number M778499250.
The publicly available missing-child notice contains only a limited account of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, leaving unanswered such basic questions as where in Phoenix he was last seen, what time he was last seen, who last had contact with him, and what he was doing immediately before he went missing. No clothing description or detailed account of the events leading up to his disappearance is included in NCMEC's public notice. The photograph distributed with the case shows a young male with short dark hair and light-colored eyes, providing the public with an important visual reference as authorities continue seeking information about his whereabouts.
As the search for Avory developed, authorities identified more than one possible area where he might be located. NCMEC specifically states that Avory may still be somewhere in the local Phoenix area, but it also warns that he may have traveled to Glendale, Arizona. That possibility significantly broadens the area in which someone could have encountered him, because Glendale lies within the greater Phoenix metropolitan region and movement between the two communities can occur without taking someone far from the Valley. The public notice does not explain why Glendale was identified as a possible destination, and no responsible conclusion can be drawn about whether Avory intended to go there, was believed to have contacts there, or was reportedly seen there. Likewise, the available notice does not describe his disappearance as an abduction, accident, or any other particular type of missing-person event. What is known is that investigators considered both Phoenix and the possibility of travel to Glendale important enough to make that information public, giving residents of both areas reason to remain alert for Avory.
The Phoenix Police Department is the law-enforcement agency listed in connection with Avory's disappearance. NCMEC directs anyone with information concerning him to contact Phoenix Police at 602-262-6151. Information can also be provided through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's 24-hour call center at 1-800-843-5678. His NCIC and NCMEC identification numbers help distinguish his case from the many other missing-juvenile reports handled across the country and allow information to be associated with the correct investigation. Despite those formal case records, very little about the personal circumstances of Avory's disappearance has been released publicly. There is no detailed published timeline describing his final known movements on June 17, no publicly stated last-known address or intersection, and no public explanation of whether he left on foot, entered a vehicle, communicated with anyone afterward, or took personal belongings with him. That lack of publicly released information makes the case especially difficult to reconstruct from open sources and means that even a seemingly minor recollection from someone who saw Avory around the time he disappeared could potentially provide investigators with information they did not previously have.
Avory's disappearance therefore remains a case in which the confirmed public record is much smaller than the number of questions surrounding it. He disappeared from a major metropolitan area, and authorities have publicly identified both Phoenix and nearby Glendale as places where he might have remained or traveled. NCMEC's notice continues to present him as a missing child and asks the public to report information rather than attempt to investigate the case independently. No detailed public account has established what caused Avory to disappear, where he went after he was last known to be in Phoenix, or whether anyone accompanied or assisted him. Until reliable information provides those answers, his disappearance remains centered on the hope that someone recognizes his photograph, remembers seeing him, or possesses information that can help authorities determine what happened. In overview, Avory Goldman was a 16-year-old male last seen in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 17, 2025; the Phoenix Police Department is the agency associated with the investigation, NCMEC records the case as number 2053955, and authorities have advised that he may still be in the Phoenix area or may have traveled to Glendale. The circumstances leading to his disappearance have not been publicly detailed, leaving his whereabouts and what happened after he vanished unresolved in the information currently available to the public.Last Seen: Jun 17, 2025
