Tijuana, August 27. Amid tears, relatives of Germán Rafael Santoyo Toscano , an inDrive driver, pleaded for help finding the young man who had been missing since August 21, when he left for a ride booked through the platform.
“I want to beg you all to please help us find him. If anyone has him, please let him come home. He has two daughters who need him, and this whole family that's close, it's pure family that loves him very much,” said Yolanda León, Germán Rafael's grandmother.
Relatives and friends of the 25-year-old father held a demonstration in Valle Sur on Tuesday to demand that authorities ensure he is not "just another one."
On August 21, Germán Rafael left his grandmother's house in Lomas del Porvenir at 9 p.m. Before leaving, he said he would go to the Las Palmeras neighborhood, where someone had requested a ride to the Los Altos neighborhood.
Irma Yolanda Toscano, the young man's mother, said she contacted him at 10 p.m. That was the last time they had contact.
Germán Rafael was driving a gray 2017 Volkswagen Passat with license plate C07NRT9, which was located in the San Antonio de los Buenos corral after the family reported to 911 that the boy was missing.
“They told us the car had been towed around 1:30 a.m. on August 22, and they found items inside that didn't belong to my son,” said Irma Yolanda, who explained that the vehicle's papers and keys were missing.
When they went to report the disappearance at the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) headquarters in the Chapultepec Alamar neighborhood, they were told they had to wait 72 hours, so they wasted time by heeding this instruction, which, they later clarified at the headquarters in the Revolución neighborhood, was incorrect.
