David Phoenix Elijah Medina was 17 years old when he was reported missing from Mesa, Arizona, after he was last seen on December 11, 2024. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children identifies David as male and continues to feature him in its missing-child records. His case is recorded under NCMEC case number 2038874 and National Crime Information Center number M568190183.
Beyond confirming that David was last seen in Mesa on that December day, the publicly available missing-person notice provides very little information about what happened immediately before he vanished. It does not identify the specific location in Mesa where he was last seen, describe who may have been with him, or explain whether he was believed to be traveling somewhere when contact with him was lost.
The lack of publicly released circumstances leaves a significant gap in the story of David’s disappearance. The official NCMEC poster does not provide a narrative describing his activities earlier that day, a destination he may have mentioned, transportation he may have used, or any known sequence of events after the final confirmed sighting. It also does not publicly list clothing from the day he disappeared or state whether investigators believe he left on his own, encountered someone after leaving, or disappeared under other circumstances. Those unanswered questions are important because they prevent the available facts from establishing how or why David disappeared. Rather than suggesting a particular explanation, the public record simply establishes that he was in Mesa and was last known to have been seen on December 11, after which his whereabouts became unknown.
Mesa Police Department is the law-enforcement agency identified in connection with David’s disappearance, and the public missing-child notice asks anyone with information to contact the department at 480-644-2211. NCMEC also provides an option for members of the public to submit information concerning the case. David’s continued appearance in the organization’s missing-child database is significant because the current version of the record still labels him as missing and now lists him as 18 years old. No information on the official public profile indicates that he has been located, and the publicly available material reviewed for his case does not describe a confirmed sighting after his disappearance or announce a resolution. With so little publicly disclosed about the circumstances, even information that may initially appear minor—such as remembering seeing David, knowing whom he was communicating with, or having knowledge of where he intended to go—could potentially help investigators reconstruct what occurred.
David’s disappearance therefore remains a troubling case marked more by what is unknown than by what has been publicly established. A teenager was last seen in Mesa on December 11, 2024, and the official record that followed contains only the basic facts necessary to identify him and direct information to investigators. There is no publicly released account explaining the hours surrounding his disappearance, no disclosed trail showing where he went afterward, and no official public announcement on the NCMEC listing that his case has been resolved. In overview, David Phoenix Elijah Medina disappeared from Mesa while still a teenager, his whereabouts after his last known sighting remain publicly unknown, and Mesa Police Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children continue to maintain information connected to the effort to determine where he is and what happened after he was last seen.Last Seen: Dec 11, 2024
