Birmingham police searching for missing 8-year-old
Damon Moon Jr. was last seen at Ninth Avenue North and Center Street on Tuesday. He was reportedly last seen with his father going to a park and did not return home. They were last seen in a blue/green 2012 Ford Fusion with its tag reading '1A1BD4T.'
Moon was last seen wearing a faded pink/red Alabama team shirt with an elephant on it and gray champion shorts. He is 4-foot-11, weighs around 110 pounds and has brown eyes and black hair.
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