Missing From: Horry County, South Carolina
Missing: June 1, 2007
Age at Disappearance: 23
Height: 5′ 8″
Weight: 155
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: African American male.
Details of Disappearance: On June 17, 2007, Kareem’s vehicle was pulled out of the Little Pee Dee River from Gunter’s Island area. Kareem was not in the vehicle and dive attempts have turned up nothing,
Investigating Agency: Horry County Police Department (843) 915-8345
If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.
Horry County man still missing one year later
June 18, 2008
Kareem Ward’s family took News13 along with them as they handed out fliers with the missing man’s picture, just six months ago.
Horry county police pulled Ward’s car out of the Little Pee Dee River just days after he went missing.
Ward’s family still doesn’t know what happened to the 23-year-old and they find it hard to hold out hope they’ll ever see him alive.
Kareem’s mother Velma Warren said she and her family just want to know what happened, they say somebody knows what happened to Kareem and they held a memorial Monday evening to let people know that they have not forgotten.
Kareem Ward was a very special person, sweet, loving, kind, would give you the shirt off his back, those are just some of the words family and friends used to describe the young man who’s been missing for a year.
Warren said if she can just get some closure and find out what happened to her son, she can go on with her life.
“It’s really stalled, each and everyday it’s a different day for me, I get up one, two, three o’clock in the morning and I just fall on my knees and pray and ask God to please send us some closure to this thing, it’s just too much for me to handle so I just give it all to him.“ said Warren.
Warren also leans on support from her family, specifically, Kareem’s baby daughter who was born just months after he was reported missing.
She also has support from people like Chief Deputy Paul Butler, who spoke at the memorial, not on behalf of the Horry County sheriff’s department, but because he’s a family friend and wants anyone who knows anything to please come forward.
Velma Warren said, “You just got to put yourself in my shoes and just say I wonder how she’s sleeping at night, you know just think of it like that just put yourself in my shoes because it could be me now, but it could be you the next time.“
Ward’s family said what ever happened to Kareem is not something that can be swept under the rug and they will not let anybody forget him, his life, or his legacy.
They hope the memorial will maybe jog someone’s memory and they will come forward with information about what happened.