Search for Hassani Campbell Continues

OAKLAND, Calfi. (KCBS) -- Oakland police say the search for five-year-old Hassani Campbell remains a top priority eight months after he mysteriously disappeared.

The Fremont child was reported missing August 10th by his foster father, Louis Ross after the two allegedly visited Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

Ross told investigators that he left Hasanni inside his car to run an errand only to return and find the boy gone.

That touched off a massive search for the boy. San Leandro resident Sherry Lynn Miller volunteered to help then and is still out there today.

"He deserves to be found," she said. "It's everybody's responsibility to get out here and try to find him."

She has since formed a non-profit group to help streamline search efforts. This weekend, Miller and several volunteers hosted a fund-raiser at the Presbyterian church on College Avenue, complete with pictures of Hasanni tacked up everywhere.

"People don't remember until we do something big to let them know,'Hey, this child is still missing,'" Miller said.

Investigators never really bought the foster father's story, and Ross, and the boy's foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, were briefly jailed in the case, but were let go due to a lack of evidence. Both have since moved out of the area.

Police officer Jeff Thomason says despite that the case is very active. He says that investigator is currently re-interviewing witnesses and going over old clues. Hopefully, in the near future, says Thomason, the department will be able to bring closure to this case.