Endangered Child Alert: 9-Year-Old Boy Reported Missing In Tennessee

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a statewide endangered child alert for a missing 9-year-old boy on behalf of the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office.

Jordan Allen Gorman was last seen at his home in Ashland City on Sunday (November 15), according to the endangered child alert shared on TBI's website. He was wearing blue jeans and a gray short sleeve t-shirt with red stripes on the arms prior to his disappearance.

Jordan is described as a 4'0, 75 lb white male with brown hair and brown eyes. No additional information regarding his disappearance has been released as of Monday morning.

Anyone with information regarding Jordan's whereabouts or disappearance is strongly urged to contact the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND or the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office at (615)-792-2098.

There are currently 18 unsolved cases of missing children in Tennessee dating back to 2004, according to TBI.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is an investigative law enforcement agency with state-wide jurisdiction in Tennessee. The agency was created after a highly publicized 1949 murder in Greene County, Tennessee.

In January 1951, Greeneville Sun publisher John M. Jones Sr. called for the creation of an impartial state agency to assist local law enforcement in investigations of serious crimes. Two months later, then-governor Gordon Browning signed a bill into law establishing the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification (TBCI) as the "plainclothes" division of the Department of Safety.

On March 27, 1980, the organization was re-established as an independent agency and renamed the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Since then, the TBI has grown significantly, implementing up-to-date investigative procedures, forensic science and support to the state of Tennessee's entire criminal justice system.

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