UPDATED: Missing Child Found

UPDATE: According to police, Matthew Hancock has been safely located at a friend’s house in Hixson.

East Ridge Police Department would like to thank East Ridge Fire Rescue, Hamilton County STARS, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Chattanooga Police Department for their assistance in locating Mr. Hancock.

Police are seeking assistance in locating a missing thirteen year-old boy named Matthew Jordan Hancock.

Matthew was last seen at his home near Altamaha Street and Ringgold Road on May 13 at 2:30 p.m..

Matthew is approximately 5’ tall and 90 pounds, currently has short brown hair, brown eyes, and wears dark rimmed glasses.

At last contact, he had been wearing grey-colored shorts, a dark-colored t-shirt and riding a blue-colored mountain-styled bicycle. Those with any potential information are urged to contact Detective Greg Beck of East Ridge Police Department at 423-867-3718 or Police Dispatch at 423-622-1725.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.