A statewide Amber Alert has been issued in Ohio for 5-year-old Darnell Taylor, who police believe may be in danger after Taylor and his foster mother, Pammy Maye, 48, disappeared overnight.
Columbus police are asking anyone who may have seen Taylor and Maye or have any information that could help their investigation to come forward.
Maye’s husband called 911 around 3 a.m. Wednesday and told police that she “woke him up and made statements that made him believe that their foster child, 5-year-old Darnell Taylor, had been hurt or was in danger,” Columbus Police Deputy Chief Smith Weir said in a press conference Wednesday.
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Weir said said they believe the child is in danger because of some of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance, but would not reveal what Maye told her husband.
The caller said that Maye then left the residence in a grey 2015 Jeep Cherokee. Police responded to the scene minutes after receiving the call and searched the residence but did not find Taylor, according to Weir.