Family of missing Brandon teen expands search effort, appeals for security footage

Chelsea Kemp · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 7:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The household of a missing 18-year-old from Brandon is continuing crushed hunt efforts crossed the southwestern Manitoba city, and urging anyone with doorbell oregon information camera footage that whitethorn assistance find him to travel forward.  

Owen Bedford, 18, was past seen astir 2 a.m. Sunday leaving a barroom connected Victoria Avenue between 34th and 26th streets with friends, says his relative Austin Tame. He hasn't been seen oregon heard from since.

Bedford's sister, Jordan Bedford, says her household needs to find her "baby brother."

"He is ne'er successful trouble. He's ever wanting to bash what's champion for the radical astir him.… It's precise retired of character," she said.

"He's ever with his friends and his family, and to not beryllium contiguous oregon speaking to anybody is evidently of large concern."

Despite being 7 months pregnant, Jordan has been retired searching 12 hours a time since her member disappeared.

"Our biggest precedence is to get Owen location arsenic safely arsenic we can," she said. "We conscionable evidently privation our babe member to travel home."

Tame said volunteers person been combing the city for immoderate motion of his relative since Sunday. By Tuesday afternoon, helium estimated much than 150 radical had joined the search.

"We person present broadened the hunt to each of Brandon ... apical to bottom, near to right, obscurity is disconnected limits," Tame said.

"With the magnitude of enactment we person and radical we person retired here, we deliberation that we're beauteous blessed to beryllium capable to excavation those resources to effort and deed each imaginable avenue."

Tame says the anticipation is any information footage, particularly from the country wherever Bedford was past seen Sunday morning, mightiness amusement his relative and could assistance constrictive down the search.

He said searchers are trying to debar passageway vision, and aren't ruling immoderate areas out. He encourages radical anyplace successful the metropolis to cheque their doorbell cameras oregon information footage for immoderate motion of his cousin.

Bedford is astir 5 feet 7 inches tall, with blond hairsbreadth and bluish eyes. He was past seen wearing a grey hoodie with the words "Las Vegas" connected it, light-coloured bluish jeans, a achromatic shot headdress and achromatic shoes.

In a connection to CBC, Brandon constabulary said they're using each disposable resources and exertion successful the hunt for Bedford, including drones and search dogs. The constabulary service's large crimes portion is involved, and officers are moving intimately with the bureau of the occurrence commissioner, constabulary said.

On Tuesday, they were joined by the Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team, which was searching the Assiniboine River.

Police are asking anyone with accusation to interaction the missing persons portion at 204-729-2392.