Little Rock Police confirms missing Amber Alert child has been located and is safe and sound

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Little Rock police issued a Missing/Endangered Child Advisory for 2-year-old Markel Jennings after he was reported missing the night of November 7, 2026. By the evening of November 8, the organization that widely amplified the alert reported that the child had been located and was safe.

According to the Arkansas State Notification System advisory and contemporaneous local reporting, Jennings was last known to be at 1225 Geyer Springs Road, Apartment 616, in Little Rock, Pulaski County. He was last reported traveling eastbound on IN a car driven by his Grandmother, 9th Street around 10 p.m. on November 7.

.The alert spread via the state notification system and was amplified by missing-persons advocacy accounts. The AWARE Foundation publicized the advisory and identified Sanders as the child’s grandmother while stating that she had an outstanding arrest warrant, raising safety concerns. That characterization of the relationship and warrant status was not detailed in the core advisory text provided to the public via the notification system.

On the evening of November 8, The AWARE Foundation posted an update stating that the child had been located and was safe. The post received significant engagement relative to the initial alert amplification. No widespread official confirmation from Little Rock police or major local news outlets had appeared in available reporting by November 9, and readers should treat secondary updates as provisional pending confirmation from LRPD.

Anyone with residual information related to the case is still encouraged to contact the Little Rock Police Department at (501) 371-4829. Official status updates should be sought directly from LRPD, as secondary reports can lag or contain incomplete details.

This remains an active or recently resolved public-safety matter, and details may continue to develop.