Search continues for missing Cleveland teen Keshaun Williams

NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) – Authorities searched Thursday in Newburgh Heights in connection to missing teenager Keshaun Williams.

Cleveland police and the U.S. Marshals Service searched in a wooded area and creek bed near I-77 and Fleet Avenue.

The Cleveland boy was last seen June 17, 2023 after attending a party on Gertrude Avenue in the city’s Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood.

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Witnesses later told police they saw him tied up and beaten inside of a car, which led to what has now become Ohio’s longest active Amber Alert.

19 News Reporter Brittany Wier said authorities were gathered in a church parking lot near Fleet Avenue and East 50th Street.

A police official there confirmed it was in connection to Williams’ case. Police said this is a search effort, not a recovery.

Police told 19 News crews including cadaver dogs searched Thursday morning for two-and-a-half hours.

It’s a vacant area authorities said the clearing of leaves and brush has now better allowed them to search.

Williams is 5 feet, 7 inches with black hair in braids and brown eyes. He turned 16 years old on Saturday, Dec. 9.

On the day he went missing, he was wearing black jogging pants and a t-shirt with red and gray Jordan sneakers.

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Investigators are convinced somebody out there knows something that can help bring him home.

The reward money is now at $22,500.

If you have information that could help locate Williams, please contact Cleveland Police at 216-623-5400 or 911.

You can also call the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at 1-866-4-WANTED.

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