Fifteen-year-old Aaliyah Minter is listed in public missing-person records as having last been seen in Garland, Texas, on March 2, 2026. According to the NamUs case entry, she is a Black/African American girl with black hair and brown eyes, approximately 4 feet 10 inches tall and about 85 pounds, and she was reportedly wearing a gray shirt and gray leggings when she disappeared.
The public case information says she went with a friend’s mother from the hotel where she and her family were staying, and that after the family tried to reach that woman, communication stopped. Since then, the family reportedly has not seen or heard from Aaliyah.
The known public details are limited, which is often one of the hardest parts of a case like this. What is clear from the official listing is that her disappearance was serious enough to be entered into NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, which serves as a national clearinghouse for missing-person cases in the United States. The record also identifies Garland Police Department as the investigating agency and lists Detective Joelle Luedeke as the case contact, along with agency case number 2026R003747.
Based on the online sources currently available, this appears to remain an active missing-person case. The NamUs page is still publicly posted, and I did not find an official public update stating that Aaliyah has been found alive or found deceased. The attached case data also does not show a resolution status; because it is blank rather than marked Alive or Deceased, there is no basis from the provided data to describe the case as closed. As of now, the most careful reading of the available information is that her whereabouts have not been publicly clarified.
There is an especially heartbreaking quality to this case because the publicly described circumstances suggest a sudden separation from family contact rather than a long trail of known movements. For loved ones, that kind of silence can be agonizing. The official records do not provide broader background, motive, or confirmed sightings after the date she was last seen, so any further narrative would risk going beyond what has been publicly documented. What remains is the stark and painful fact that a 15-year-old girl vanished, and her family has been left without the answers they deserve.
Texas also maintains a statewide Missing Persons Clearinghouse bulletin system for circulating and tracking missing-person information, although I did not find a separate detailed public bulletin for Aaliyah there from the search results available. Even so, the existence of both local law-enforcement contact information and the national NamUs listing shows that the case has been formally documented through official channels. For anyone reading about her case, the most reliable public information points back to NamUs and Garland Police Department.Last Seen: Mar 2, 2026
