Over a dozen friends and family members of Branson Oduor met outside James Joyce Irish Pub & Restaurant on Friday morning to search for the 27-year-old who disappeared almost a week ago after a night out in Fells Point.

The group, made up of childhood friends from Germantown, former colleagues, his girlfriend, his parents and others, strategized where to hand out flyers and speak to people. Oduor’s girlfriend, Emily Costa, told the group he was last seen near the Inner Harbor in the early morning of April 4. Police found his electric bike, which had an Apple AirTag, in the 600 block of South President Street.

Claude Torres, the missing persons liaison for the Baltimore Police Department, joined the group. Torres said Oduor was last seen around 4 a.m. Saturday in footage obtained by police from the area of Fleet Street and South Central Avenue, walking away from the harbor. Earlier in the night, Oduor left The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fells Point, a popular area full of bars and restaurants near the waterfront.

After the group took a moment to plan out their day of canvassing, they went off in different directions along the Inner Harbor. Some went searching for cameras and began knocking on doors in hopes of getting footage from the night he went missing. Everyone handed out flyers.

“He had plans for the future, and he has a bright future, he just got a new job,” said Millicent Obongo, Oduor’s mother, who has been driving from Germantown every morning to search for her son. “It’s really hard on the family.”

Torres said divers with Baltimore’s police and fire departments looked for signs of him in the water again on Friday. But he added that the detectives in the missing persons unit were “still hoping and confident” that there would be a positive outcome.

Oduor’s landlord and next-door neighbor, Beyza Akcam, said Oduor is like a “son from another mother.” She said he is a responsible and positive person whom everyone gets along with.

“I don’t think he has one enemy or nobody doesn’t like him,” she said. “There’s no way.”

Akcam last heard from Oduor on April 3, when he said he was thinking about going out for happy hour. She was at the beach three hours away when she heard that he was missing and immediately began checking the apartment’s cameras. There was no sign that Oduor had returned that night, she said.

More than 3,000 people are reported missing each year in Baltimore, according to the Police Department. Since the beginning of 2026, 552 people have been reported missing, according to the department’s data.

Obongo said this incident is unusual because her son did not seem upset or unwell. She described him as a friendly and outgoing person. He had recently visited his hometown and had plans to visit his family again in the coming weeks.

“It’s unlike him,” she said. “For him to be missing, that’s something that I was not expecting.”

Banner reporters Darreonna Davis and Clara Longo De Freitas contributed to this story.