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Boy From Viral Police Photo Missing After Fatal Family Car Crash

Police want to know why the family's vehicle crashed into the Pacific Ocean at the bottom of a California cliff. Five members of the Hart family died, Devonte and two of his sisters remain missing.

In 2014, the face of a 12-year-old boy struck a deep national chord. A black child, tears streaming down his face, gripping a white police officer in an embrace, just as bitterness tore at the nation during Ferguson-related protests.

Today, Devonte Hart is missing and feared dead after his parents and three of his siblings were killed in a crash.

On Monday, a passerby spotted the family's vehicle flipped onto its roof

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