Family and friends are asking for the public’s help in locating 34-year-old Joseph Lynn Kitchen Jr.
A flyer circulating on social media says Kitchen was last seen on Tuesday, August 11 in the D.C. metro region.
Kitchen is the president of the Maryland Young Democrats. He lives in Prince George’s County.
A friend of Kitchen’s posted to social media Friday night that she has been in contact with Kitchen’s parents. She says his parents, who live in California, are flying to the area to help locate Kitchen.
The social media post says Kitchen’s family is working with police to locate him.
Anyone with information on Kitchen’s whereabouts should contact Kitchen’s family members (numbers listed below in the flyer).
Ryan R. Miner, MBA is the founder, editor in chief, and senior reporter of A Miner Detail, the Maryland investigative journalism publication he launched in April 2015. He hosts the A Miner Detail Podcast, distributed across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and seven other platforms. A native of Hagerstown, Maryland, Miner holds a B.A. in political science from Duquesne University (2008) and an MBA from Mount St. Mary's University (2020). He teaches at Frederick Community College. He is also the founder of Sentinel Silver, LLC, Maryland's first older adult technology institute, and the publisher of The Senior Soup, a Maryland senior advocacy platform. His longer story is at ryanrminer.com. Reach him at Ryan@AMinerDetail.com or (240) 244-7075.
