Billionaire Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s 16-year-old runaway child is considered ‘at risk’ due to ‘past suicidal threats’, police warn did.
Mint Butterfield, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, was reported missing early Monday morning after running away from her mother’s home in Bolinas, California. This was announced by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy’s mother, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, alerted authorities immediately after discovering the letter, warning that Minto might be headed to San Francisco’s notoriously dangerous Tenderloin district.
The sheriff’s office said in a statement Thursday: “At this time, there is no information that would lead us to believe that Minto was taken against their will.”
“The Sheriff’s Office considers Minto a voluntarily-disappeared juvenile who is ‘at risk’ due to previous reported suicide threats,” they added, but did not elaborate. There wasn’t.
Minto was last seen by his mother around 10 p.m. Sunday, and authorities said he fled the house with a suitcase “sometime during the night or early morning.”
“It is unclear how Mr. Minto left the area as he did not have access to a vehicle or phone,” the sheriff’s office said.
Minto, who lived with his mother and attended a private school in the Napa area, is said to have a history of substance abuse. san francisco standard report.
They were known to frequent the Tenderloin area, known for violent crime, rampant homelessness, and open-air drug markets.
“Deputies in Marin County have registered Minto with the Missing and Unidentified Persons System (MUPS) and sent All Points bulletin flyers with Minto’s description and photo to surrounding law enforcement agencies,” the sheriff said. the office said.
“Detectives from both police departments, in conjunction with the San Francisco Police Department, attempted to locate the mint, but were unable to locate it.”
Minto’s father, Stewart Butterfield, co-founded the messaging app Slack in 2013, but left the company after Salesforce acquired the platform in 2021 for $28 billion.
According to Forbes, his net worth is approximately $1.6 billion.
Meanwhile, the teen’s mother co-founded the imaging service Flickr with Butterfield in 2004 and sold the company to Yahoo. It was sold at auction in 2005 for approximately $30 million.
Fake and Butterfield married in 2001 but divorced in 2007, the same year their daughter was born.
Mint is their only child.
If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 or visit the following link: SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.
