Indiana State Police Search for Former Indianapolis Colts Player Daniel Muir’s Son – NBC Chicago

Indiana State Police are searching for a 14-year-old boy who is “missing and endangered,” authorities said. His parents withdrew from a meeting with law enforcement earlier this week.

A Silver Alert was issued Friday for Bryson Muir, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall, 185 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police said he was last seen wearing an orange Under Armor shirt and blue jeans.

Bryson is the son of Daniel Muir, a former Indianapolis Colts player whose last season with the team was in 2011, and Daniel’s wife, Kristen.

The 14-year-old was last seen on June 16 with his mother leaving his grandmother’s house near Cleveland, Ohio. His grandmother called police and provided a photo of Bryson with a black eye as evidence of potential abuse, according to WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis. But when police stopped the mother moments later in Garfield Heights, Ohio, Bryson was not in the vehicle.

“I just want to find Bryson. I want to make sure he’s OK,” said his grandmother, Cheryl Wright.

State police investigators spoke with Muir’s parents on June 27, authorities said, adding that police and the Department of Child Services were able to conduct a visit to their home, which is on the property of a religious group called the Servant Leader’s Foundation.

Daniel and Kristen Muir reportedly agreed to meet with state police investigators at the Indiana State Police Peru Post at noon on June 28. However, an hour before the scheduled meeting, the Muirs backed out of the agreement, “signaling to the ISP their unwillingness to cooperate,” authorities said.

ISP investigators spoke with Bryson Muir’s parents, Daniel and Kristen Muir, on June 27.

Police believe Bryson may have been the victim of domestic violence at his home on a large property owned by a religious group in Kokomo, WTHR reported.

When Wright went to pick up Bryson in Toledo about two weeks ago at her daughter’s request, she said he had a black eye, a thick lip and a swollen face.

“He just said his dad did it, but he wasn’t mad, but he wasn’t mad at his dad. He told me he deserved it and it was okay,” she said. “So I told him that wasn’t the case and that no one should hit their children like that if they love them.”

Wright said that on the day she went to pick up Bryson, there were three people in the car – his mom, dad and a man she didn’t know.

But only Bryson drove with her to her home in Cleveland for almost two hours.

“She just told me that I had to pick him up, and since it’s an ongoing case, I don’t want to talk about everything that happened during our conversation, but she just told me that I had to come pick him up,” the grandmother said.

Wright testified that just a few days later, Bryson was picked up by his mother, father and an adult male, but not before she called the police.

State police said Bryson’s case has not yet reached the silver or amber alert threshold.

“The statute that we reviewed has certain criteria,” said Ron Galaviz, public information director for the Indiana State Police. “And while we consider him missing and endangered, the definition under Indiana law does not meet that situation. “

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Bryson Muir or his parents is asked to contact the Indiana State Police Peru Post at 1-800-382-0689, 911 or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.