There was nothing unusual about last Friday night when Branson Oduor went out for dinner and drinks with a friend after work, his mom said.

“I was just hoping he would go, have fun, come back home and life goes on as usual,” said Millicent Obongo.

But Oduor never made it home.

No one has heard from or seen the 27-year-old Baltimore man since the early morning hours on April 4 when he left The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fells Point, a popular area full of bars and restaurants near the waterfront.

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Now, Obongo, along with Oduor’s father, George, have been driving an hour from Germantown to Baltimore every day looking for their son who has been missing for a week. Since he went missing last week, his friends and girlfriend, Emily Costa, have been spreading the word on social media platforms.

Looking for Oduor are his former colleagues at Brightview Senior Living facility, his hometown friends and others in Baltimore who simply want to help.

The Baltimore Police Department said he was last seen on camera footage in the early morning of April 4 on South Central Avenue and Fleet Street downtown.

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“He had plans for the future,” Obongo said, adding that her son had just started a new job at Greenberg Gibbons, a real estate developer, and showed no signs of distress.

She was handing out fliers with a group of friends and loved ones around the Inner Harbor area on Friday morning. The group also was on the hunt for more footage that could show where Oduor may have gone.

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The group also retraced his running path along the Inner Harbor promenade that he recently recorded on Strava, an app used to track runs and hikes.

Police said they found his electric bike, which had an Apple AirTag, in the 600 block of South President Street. The police department’s divers had gone out on the water in the Inner Harbor to look for him on Thursday and Friday, but they did not go out on the water on Saturday, said James Moses, a spokesman for the police department.

Branson Oduor’s parents, Millicent Obongo and George Oduor, right, hand out fliers to people in the neighborhoods in Harbor East and Inner. (Kaitlin Newman/The Banner)
Chayla D, a bartender who works in Fells Point, helps canvas the neighborhoods with the search party. Chayla doesn’t know Branson but stressed the importance of showing up for your fellow neighbor and human in times of need. (Kaitlin Newman/The Banner)

Claude Torres, the missing persons liaison for the Baltimore Police Department, said on Friday that detectives were “still hoping and confident” that there would be a positive outcome after they found the footage of him walking away from the harbor area around 4 a.m.

There were no updates in the case on Saturday morning, according to Obongo and the police.

Some loved ones suspected that Oduor, a native of Kenya, might have been detained by immigration agents. But the Department of Homeland Security said in an email that its officers did not arrest Oduor.

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27-year old Branson Oduor was a runner on the University of Mount Olive track and field team in college and has remained an avid runner. Oduor was last seen on April 4, 2026.
Branson Oduor was a runner on the University of Mount Olive track and field team in college and has remained an avid runner. (Courtesy of Millicent Obongo)

Friends and family continue their search for Oduor as well, who many described as positive and outgoing.

Oduor’s landlord and next-door neighbor, Beyza Akcam, said that everyone seemed to like Oduor’s friendly nature, and he didn’t have a single enemy.

Even though Oduor’s apartment near Camden Yards was about two miles away from the bar where he was last heard from, Akcam said he was a runner who knew the area well because of his daily runs.

“It’s unlike him to not reach out if he’s able to,” she said. “So something happened.”

Costa, his 25-year-old girlfriend of a year and a half, said her boyfriend “lives life to the fullest.”

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“He is very outgoing and sociable,” she said. “He helps me get out of my shell and helps me not take life too seriously.”

The two planned to celebrate their 1 1/2 year anniversary on April 5 at Fogo de Chão. The last she heard from him was April 3. Now, she’s helping canvas the city to find him.

Loved ones and friends in the search party distribute flyers around the area and adjacent neighborhoods on Friday. (Kaitlin Newman/The Banner)