Indiana State Police Searching for Son of Former Indianapolis Colts Player Daniel Muir – NBC Chicago

Indiana State Police are searching for a “missing and endangered” 14-year-old boy whose parents walked out of a meeting with law enforcement earlier this week, authorities said.

A Silver Alert was issued Friday for Bryson Muir, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 185 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing an orange Under Armor shirt and blue jeans, according to police.

Bryson is the son of Daniel Muir, a former Indianapolis Colts player who last played for the team in 2011, and Daniel's wife, Kristen.

The 14-year-old was last seen June 16 with his mother as they left his grandmother's house in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. His grandmother called police and provided a photo of Bryson with a black eye as evidence of potential abuse, according to WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis. But when police arrested the mother a short time later in Garfield Heights, Ohio, Bryson was not in the vehicle.

“I just want to find Bryson. I want to make sure he's OK,” said his grandmother, Cheryl Wright.

State police investigators spoke with Muir's parents on June 27, authorities said, adding that police and the Department of Children's Services were able to visit their home, which is on the property of a religious group called the Servant Leader's Foundation.

Daniel and Kristen Muir reportedly agreed to meet with state police investigators at the Indiana State Police station in Peru at noon on June 28. But an hour before the scheduled meeting, the Muirs backed out of the deal, “signaling to ISP a reluctance to cooperate,” authorities said.

ISP investigators eventually spoke to Bryson Muir's parents, Daniel and Kristen Muir, on June 27.

Police believe Bryson may have been the victim of domestic violence at his home on a large property owned by a religious group in Kokomo, WTHR reported.

When Wright picked Bryson up in Toledo at her daughter's request about two weeks ago, she said he had a black eye, a fat lip and a swollen face.

“He just told me that his father did it, but he wasn't angry, but he wasn't angry at his father. He told me he deserved it and it was OK,” she said. “So I told him that wasn’t the case and that no one should beat their children like that, not if they love them. »

Wright said the day she picked up Bryson, there were three people in the car — his mother, his father and a man she didn't know.

But only Bryson accompanied her for nearly two hours to return home to the Cleveland area.

“She just told me I had to come and get him and since it's an ongoing matter, I don't want to say everything that happened during our conversation, but she just told me I had to come and get him,” the grandmother said.

After just a few days, Wright said Bryson was picked up by his mother, father and an adult male, but not before she called police.

State police said Bryson's case does not yet meet the threshold for a Silver or Amber Alert.

“There are certain criteria in the law that we've researched,” said Ron Galaviz, public information officer for the Indiana State Police. “And even though we consider him missing and endangered, the definition in Indiana law doesn't meet that situation.”

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Bryson Muir or his parents is asked to contact the Indiana State Police Peru Station at 1-800-382-0689, call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.