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Summary based on 5 sources
Aniiyah Ross is a female juvenile from the Phoenix, Arizona area whose disappearance has been documented in online missing-person records. Publicly available records reviewed for this case identify Ross as a minor and associate her with the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. A nonprofit missing-children listing identifies her as Aniiyah Ross and states that she was 17 years old when the listing was published, while another online record gives her date of birth as December 9, 2008. Those records, however, do not corroborate a March 27, 2026 last-seen date or identify Phoenix as the precise location where she was last seen. Instead, the available missing-child record states that she was reported missing from Glendale, Arizona, and that she might have been traveling between Phoenix and Surprise.

The public record surrounding Ross contains additional documentation showing that her circumstances had also come before the Maricopa County juvenile court system. A September 2025 legal notice published by The Record Reporter identifies Aniiyah Ross as a person under 18 and records a December 9, 2008 date of birth. The notice concerns a dependency proceeding brought by the Arizona Department of Child Safety in Maricopa County Superior Court and names Monique Smith and Larry Ross as parents and/or guardians. The published notice states that the Department of Child Safety had filed a dependency petition under Arizona juvenile-court procedures and that a hearing had been scheduled at the Maricopa County Superior Court Juvenile Division in Phoenix. The document is a court notice concerning a juvenile dependency matter rather than a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding Ross's disappearance, and the available publication does not establish that the dependency proceeding itself explains how or why she became missing.

The missing-child information that is publicly available provides only a limited account of what happened after Ross disappeared. MissingNoMore's listing states that Ross had been missing since September 3, 2025, identifies Glendale as the place associated with the disappearance, and specifically notes that she might travel between Phoenix and Surprise. The organization urged anyone with information concerning her whereabouts to contact the Glendale Police Department. Its broader Arizona missing-children page continues to list Ross among missing children, although the organization cautions that its list does not include every child currently entered in the national missing-person database and that the list changes as information and resources are updated.

Because the available online sources conflict with the supplied March 27, 2026 date and Phoenix location, the publicly verifiable chronology cannot establish those details as fact. The records located online instead document a September 3, 2025 disappearance from Glendale and describe a possible connection to Phoenix and Surprise. They also establish that Ross was born in December 2008, meaning that the online record describing her as 16 corresponds to the period when she was originally listed as missing. No reliable source located in this review confirms that she was last seen on March 27, 2026, and no reliable online source located here provides a subsequent resolution identifying her as alive or deceased. The available information therefore leaves important portions of the case chronology unresolved.

Taken together, the documented case is that Aniiyah Ross, a teenage girl from the Glendale/Phoenix area of Arizona, was publicly reported missing in September 2025 and was believed possibly to be traveling between Phoenix and Surprise. Her disappearance was serious enough to remain represented in Arizona missing-children resources, while separate Maricopa County court records document her status as a minor involved in a juvenile dependency proceeding during the same general period. The public sources reviewed do not provide a confirmed explanation for her disappearance, a verified account of her movements after she was last known to be present, or a confirmed resolution. The case remains characterized by a limited public timeline, with the central unanswered question being what happened to Ross after she disappeared and where she subsequently went.

Last Seen: Mar 27, 2026