Friends and family are organizing a search party for a queer youth who went missing from his South Side home more than a week ago.
Maurice "JacJac" Blandin, 21, left his house at 76th Ave. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, April 28 and has not returned since.
Friends are planning a search party May 5 in hopes of finding him.
According to Charles Adams, a friend of Blandin's, friends heard Blandin leave home at 4:40 a.m. Blandin's cell phone was last tracked to Navy Pier before it lost a signal. Blandin has not been to work or communicated with family members since.
Blandin lived with his boyfriend, and several friends often stayed during the weekends at his house. Friends were staying at the home on April 26, when friends said they heard the front door close in the middle of the night.
Adams said that the only place Blandin was likely to have left for was his parents' house, but he did not arrive there.
Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said that Area South detectives are investigating.
Blandin was last seen wearing a black leather mechanic's jacket, a turquoise Aeropostale hoody, a black tshirt, black vest, blue jeans and black air force one shoes. He has a cell phone ( sidekick ) , an iPod with blue cover, his ID, debit card and bus card.
Blandin is 6'1" and 150 lbs. He is Black with black hair and brown eyes. He was born Jan. 8, 1991.
More information on Blandin and the search party is available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/events/400510723305487.