GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The case of a missing teenager who is cognitively impaired has police concerned not only for the teen’s well-being, but for those he comes into contact here as well.
Isaiah Burrows, 15, left his home near Post Drive NE and US-131 in Plainfield after a family argument Monday.
Police are concerned about the safety of others because Burrows has a criminal sexual assault charge on his record. Kent County Sheriff’s Department officials said the victim is a minor.
“I wouldn’t consider him to be dangerous to go up and talk to or if he comes up and talks to you,” said Kent County Undersheriff Michelle Lajoye-Young.
But there is concern, considering Burrow’s juvenile record, of what might happen if he is near children.
Burrows was spotted Thursday in Grand Rapids leaving a grocery store at Leonard Street and Fuller Avenue. A woman who was in the area at the time told police she felt sorry for him and took him to her home and fed him after he claimed he had been dropped off in the area by friends and was stranded.