MILWAUKEE BOYS MISSING--NOT RUNAWAYS

Milwaukee boys vanish while playing

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Police officers went door to door Tuesday looking for two boys last seen playing outside Sunday, police said. Officers also used dogs and thermo-imaging equipment to look for 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said.



The department frequently gets reports of missing children, but they typically have a history of running away and turn up quickly, she said. The two boys do not have a history of running away. Family members held a news conference late Tuesday afternoon, asking that anyone who might be holding the children or with any knowledge of what happened to them to contact authorities.



Among other efforts, police contacted all registered sex offenders in the area and searched their homes, which turned up nothing, Schwartz said.



The boys were last seen playing outside a home around 3:30 p.m. Sunday. One of their grandfathers told them to come inside, but they asked to keep playing, Schwartz said. The grandfather called police at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.