The alert was issued Sunday evening, November 8, after Ezekiel Siutza had not been seen for hours. A Turquoise Alert has been canceled for a four-year-old boy out of Mesa .
“ Turquoise Alert!!! He was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and camouflage Crocs ,” Mesa Police Department initially wrote on X . The goal of the Turquoise Alert is to locate the missing endangered person through efficient information dissemination and communication that results in the safe and expedient recovery. Her murder remains unsolved.
4yr old Ezekiel Siutza was last seen on 11/8/26 at 3PM near Extension Rd and 8th Ave. The Turquoise Alert system is also cited as ‘Emily’s Law’ in honor of Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache Tribal member, who was 14 years old when she was found dead off Highway 60 in the state of Arizona after going missing. Pike’s February 2025 death was investigated as a homicide , but her killer was never identified or found.
DPS said the alert was geo-targeted, while Mesa Police said “the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued the alert within a five-mile radius of the child’s last known location,” according to the outlet. In an update later, police wrote , “ Ezekiel Siutza has been located safe with family. ” According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, “A Turquoise Alert program establishes a notification system that provides immediate information to the public through issuing and coordinating alerts using various resources following the report of a missing endangered person, including tribal members, who is under the age of 65 and specific activation criteria are met.
However, about an hour after the alert was issued, Siutza was confirmed to have been found safe with family.
