LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — A man has told police that he may be a Detroit boy reported missing by his mother at a suburban shopping mall a quarter-century ago.

The man, whose name has not been released, told police in the suburb of Livonia that he believes he is D’Wan Sims, whose mother said she last saw him Dec. 11, 1994, at Wonderland Mall, WDIV-TV reported.

He has given police a sample of his DNA. Police have not released any information about where he says he has been for the past 25 years or why he has finally come forward.

“I guess what’s odd is that he claimed that he didn’t want any of this information out in the media and from what I understand he has put this out on social media,” Livonia police Capt. Ron Taig said.

D’Wan now would be 29. He still is listed as missing on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website.

Dwanna Harris told police that D’Wan disappeared while they were shopping just before Christmas. Surveillance video showed Harris inside the mall, but there were no images of D’Wan.

“I was here at the department and we looked at all of the video, we checked everything, and we never saw D’Wan” with his mother, Taig said.

Sgt. Shelley Holloway told the Detroit Free Press in 2009 that investigators were “pretty confident D’Wan never made it to Wonderland Mall.”

Harris told reporters in 1994 that her son was 4 and that “he’s alone and he needs to come home to his mother.”

“The only thing that I want the public to know, is that my only concern is finding my son,” Harris said. “Whoever has my baby, I know he’s safe, and I know you’re taking good care of him … What I’m hoping is that someone may have ran across my child. We’ve got your Christmas ready, so, just come home.”