Indiana State Police searching for son of former Indianapolis Colts player Daniel Muir – NBC Chicago

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

A Silver Alert was issued Friday for Bryson Muir, described as 6’2″, 185 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police said he was last seen wearing an orange Under Armour shirt and blue jeans.

Bryson is the son of Daniel Muir, a former Indianapolis Colts player whose final season with the team was 2011, and Daniel’s wife Kristen.

The 14-year-old was last seen with his mother on June 16 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 possible abuse, according to WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis. But when police stopped 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.

What’s up?

State police investigators spoke with Muir’s parents on June 27, authorities said, adding that police and child welfare officials were able to view their home, which is on property owned by 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 Peru Post at noon on June 28. But an hour before the scheduled meeting, the Muirs backed out of the agreement, “signaling to the ISP their unwillingness to cooperate,” authorities said.

On June 27, ISP investigators finally spoke with Bryson Muir’s parents, Daniel and Kristen Muir.

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

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

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

Wright said the day she went to pick 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 on the nearly two-hour drive back to her home near Cleveland.

“She just told me that I have to pick him up and because it’s an ongoing case, I don’t want to say everything that happened during our conversation, but she just told me that I have to pick him up,” the grandmother explained.

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

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

“There are certain criteria in the law that we looked at,” said Ron Galaviz, chief public information officer for the Indiana State Police. “And while we consider him missing and endangered, the definition under Indiana law does not meet this situation.”

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