Because Malik's disappearance is now considered a criminal investigation and due to the time he reportedly went missing. . . here's a graph that indicates, in percentages, the time of day children under 6 years of age statistically become a victim to a violent crime. (murder, violent sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.)
The numbers to the left are the percentages. Red indicates the time Malik was reported missing. Nonfamily members include strangers, friends, mere acquaintances and etc. **The majority of nonfamily members are known to the family.
Children who've been violently victimized from someone within their own family are almost twice that of a nonfamily member
. Based on that, I personally find it interesting that one nonfamily member in Malik's life stated she considers herself family. He was last seen reportedly at 5:30, but I wonder if he was seen by anyone else before then, like before noon, after noon, etc.
DIRECT LINK-
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/victims/qa02804.asp?qaDate=2010
STATISTICALLY INFORMATIVE LINKS (direct link was among them) -
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/victims/faqs.asp