Lincoln County Sheriff’s Detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating a runaway teen. He is 15-year-old Hunter Wright.

Yesterday (May 9), Wright’s mother told Officers her son was missing from the residence on Charleston Trail. Family members had already checked all known locations that Wright was known to frequent. He has been entered in the National Crime Information Center’s database as a missing person.

Wright is described as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5’11” tall and weighs 135 pounds.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Hunter Wright should call the Sheriff’s Office at 704-732-9050, Lincoln County Communications at 704-735-8202, or the Lincolnton/Lincoln County Crime Stoppers at 704-736-8909.