Tracy N. Tucker, Citizen Journalist

Omar McDonald - Contributed

It is a situation that no mother wants to go through. Estella Daley just sits on her veranda and stares blankly as the neighbourhood children play football outside.

Her life has not been the same since her 24-year-old son went missing. Omar McDonald, otherwise known as 'Chun', left home, 388 Amberley Close, Portsmouth, Portmore, on Saturday, July 9, 2007 and has not been seen since.

He told his mother he was going to visit friends in Marine Park, Portmore.

Last seen downtown

Omar then went to see other friends in Back Bush, Mountain View. He was last seen on Orange Street, downtown Kingston, about 9:15 p.m. that evening.

"I don't think he is dead. I more feel like him gone a country with some of his friends," Miss Stella, as she is known in her community, said, as she tried to keep a brave face.

"Chun know him way home and every day and night I listen out for him to come in," she added.

Omar is said to be mentally challenged and needs a monthly injection.

He was a normal teenager attending Bridgeport High School but, after turning 16 on July 2, 1999, his family noticed that he became ill.

"Him function well on him medication and if nobody don't tell you that him sick, you wouldn't know. But him can get a little miserable when him don't get him shot," Ms. Stella explained.

He was due his next shot on July 16 at the Greater Portmore Medical Centre. It is the first time Omar has been away from home for so long. He has been known to stay away for two to three days. On these occasions, he was always visiting friends.

The situation has been very distressing for Ms. Stella who has visited the Spanish Town and Kingston Public hospitals in search of her son. She has even left a picture of him at Madden's Funeral Home.

When Omar left home, he was wearing a blue T-shirt with a silver pattern on the front, jeans and black slippers.

He is about 5ft 6" tall, of dark complexion and slim build and hishair is cornrowed. Anyone with information is being asked to contact Miss Stella at 988-4059 or 417-6773, and the Waterford Police Station at 988-1763, or 119.