Police search for 3-year-old abducted at Leakin Park in Baltimore

Baltimore police were searching Sunday for 3-year-old Johnson Roman after officers said he was taken from Leakin Park in a reported parental abduction that unfolded near the 1900 block of Eagle Drive. Police said the case came to light around 1:37 p.m., when officers met with Roman’s father at the scene.

According to police, Roman’s father said he had been playing with his son shortly before the boy was taken. Investigators later identified the mother as Enurah Isis and said she left in a vehicle believed to be a white Chevy Impala or Malibu. Police did not release information about where Isis and the child may have gone after leaving the park.

The Baltimore Police Department asked the public to help locate Roman and urged anyone with information to contact the Northwest District at 410-396-2466 or call 911. The search centered on the Northwest District, which covers the west Baltimore area around Leakin Park, a place where families often gather and where a missing-child report can quickly become a citywide concern.

The case also highlighted how child-abduction alerts are supposed to work in a fast-moving emergency. Maryland State Police says the AMBER Alert Plan is reserved for the most serious child abduction cases and uses broadcasters and the Emergency Alert System to spread an urgent bulletin. The federal AMBER Alert system operates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and federal statistics show 1,292 children had been successfully recovered through the system as of Dec. 18, 2025.

FBI guidance says people should not wait to report a missing child, and says the bureau has jurisdiction to immediately investigate reported mysterious disappearances or kidnappings involving a child. In Baltimore, where Leakin Park sits close to neighborhoods on the city’s west side, police were moving quickly to trace the white Chevy and find Roman before the trail grew colder.