A statewide AMBER Alert was issued late Monday morning for nine-year-old Jordan Allen Gorman, who went missing in Cheatham County over the weekend, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
The TBI and Cheatham County Sheriff Mike Breedlove spoke Monday afternoon from a command post near New Life Community Church in Joelton, urging community members to be on the lookout for any signs of the boy, who is believed to be barefoot, wearing a short-sleeved gray t-shirt with red stripes on the arms and blue jeans.
?This is a race in time," Breedlove said. He and other officials noted that overnight temperatures fell below freezing Sunday and were expected to do the same on Monday.
Residents in the area of Valley View Road in Joelton were being asked by authorities to walk their property and search crawlspaces, sheds and outbuildings - anywhere a child could take cover.
"He's a little boy," Breedlove said, adding that Jordan is four-feet tall and weighs 75 pounds. The TBI also said the boy has brown hair and brown eyes. "He?s just a very small child ... We?re all praying that we find him.?
Jordan was last seen in a heavily wooded area near his Joelton-area home on Sunday, the TBI reported.
The agency's spokesman Josh DeVine said Monday afternoon that investigators were trying to put together a timeline of what happened, leading up to the child's disappearance.
Investigators currently don't know what prompted the boy to leave, which direction he headed in when he left or when exactly the first 911 call was placed, DeVine said from the scene.