Sixteen-year-old Hayden Thompson, a white male teenager, was last seen on August 15, 2025, in Kingsport, Tennessee. The available case information places his last known location near Patterson Road in Sullivan County. According to the Kingsport Police Department, Hayden was believed to have left an address there voluntarily before departing on foot in the direction of Bloomingdale Pike. He had his cellphone with him when he left. At the time of his disappearance, Hayden was described as approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a white sleeveless tank top, blue jeans, and cowboy boots, a distinctive combination of clothing that authorities hoped members of the public might remember seeing.
As time passed without confirmation of Hayden's whereabouts, the Kingsport Police Department issued a public appeal for assistance. Investigators classified him as a runaway juvenile and entered his information into the National Crime Information Center, ensuring that law-enforcement agencies encountering him elsewhere would know that he had been reported missing. The police release identified Patterson Road as his last known location and repeated his physical description and clothing so residents, motorists, businesses, and others in the Kingsport area could recognize him. Authorities asked anyone who knew where Hayden was staying, had communicated with him, or had seen someone matching his description to contact Kingsport Central Dispatch or the department's Criminal Investigations Division. Anonymous information could also be submitted through the city's citizen-feedback system.
The period in which Hayden's location was unknown carried the uncertainty that surrounds any missing-child investigation. Although police believed he had left voluntarily, Hayden was still a 16-year-old away from the people responsible for his safety, and the public appeal reflected the importance of locating him and confirming that he was unharmed. The information released by authorities did not describe a vehicle connected to his departure, identify anyone accompanying him, or provide detailed information about where he might have intended to go. Instead, the known account remained focused on a teenage boy leaving on foot from Patterson Road, walking toward Bloomingdale Pike, carrying his cellphone, and wearing clothes that might make him recognizable to anyone who crossed his path. NamUs subsequently published Hayden's missing-person record as case MP154605, listing the Kingsport Police Department as the investigating agency and documenting August 15, 2025, as his date of last contact.
The case ultimately ended with welcome news. In an official update, the Kingsport Police Department reported that Hayden had been located and found safe, and the agency thanked the public for helping bring the search to a successful conclusion. Officials did not publicly provide the exact date on which he was located, where he was found, how investigators reached him, or further details about the circumstances of his return. Those details remain appropriately private, particularly because Hayden was a juvenile. What is publicly known is that the search began after 16-year-old Hayden Thompson left a Patterson Road address on foot in Kingsport on August 15, 2025, continued through public notices and law-enforcement databases, and concluded when authorities confirmed that he had been found alive and safe.
Last Seen: Aug 15, 2025
