MENASHA (NBC 26) — The family of Diego Alejandro Ramirez, a Fox Crossing man who was last seen on Sunday, is asking the community to help search for him.
A search party met at the Multicultural Coalition's office in Menasha at 333 First St., Suite D, Thursday evening to will begin a search for Ramirez.
The Fox Crossing Police Department says Ramirez was last seen Sunday at 1:30 a.m., at the corner of Ninth Street and Erlu Drive near a mobile home park, on the border between Menasha and Fox Crossing.
His parents — Oscar Alejandro Ramirez and Maria del Carmen Ramirez — are asking the community to help look for him.
"Please help us find my son, who's been missing since Saturday [night]," Oscar Ramirez said tearfully, through an interpreter. "We want to find him."
Police say Diego is 5'9" and 122 pounds, and was last seen in a red hoodie and blue jeans — he also has a tattoo on the right side of his neck that says "Bad" vertically.
A group gathered to help the family search Thursday, and at a makeshift press conference Thursday, Oscar Ramirez spoke directly to his son:
"If you are watching this somewhere else, son, I want you to go back home with your mom and your sister," he said, through the interpreter. "It doesn't matter why it happened to you, I just want you to be with us and know that we love you and miss you a lot ."
Oscar Ramirez also says his family has not lived in the Menasha area for long, but his son does speak English.
NBC 26 called the Fox Crossing Police Department on Thursday afternoon, and officers said they have no new information about the search for Diego.
Anyone with information about Diego is asked to call Fox Crossing PD at 920-720-7109.
