Alert canceled for missing 7-year-old boy

Philip Izaah Whitten
Philip Izaah Whitten
photo Philip Eugene Roberts

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has canceled an endangered child alert for Middle and East Tennessee after a 7-year-old boy in Winchester was reported missing.

The alert said the child was taken by his noncustodial father Philip Eugene Roberts from a residence in Winchester, Tennessee, at approximately noon Tuesday.

"Philip Izaah Whitten is a white male, 4'01" tall, weighs 60 lbs and has blonde hair and blue eyes," the alert said. "He has a birthmark on his right inner elbow and a burn mark on the left side of his neck. They may be traveling in an older-model silver Dodge Stratus."

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