A broken chain and tossed-aside silk flowers are the only evidence left of a Ghost Bike memorial that used to stand on East Broadway.

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A memorial "Ghost Bike" appears to have been stolen from the site where 14-year-old Jose Rincon was killed by a driver in January as he rode his bike on the shoulder of the road.

The bicycle was put there in May to bring attention and awareness to cyclists on the road. More of these bikes have cropped up around town marking other deaths in the past few months. The bikes are painted white with messages about the person killed or reminding drivers to watch for cyclists.

The chain holding the bike to a city sign near East Broadway and Harrison Road had apparently been cut, the flowers at the site were strewn, and the bike was missing.

The city told Ari Shapiro, who put the bike up, it would give him a week or so to remove the bike from the sign, because it is illegal to lock anything to a city sign. "We did not remove the bike," said city Transportation Department spokesman Michael Graham.

Shapiro said he planned to remove it and find a way to legally secure it at the site, but he did not get a chance to do that before the bike disappeared.

The Rincon family visited the bike and site of the crash Saturday to release balloons and mark six months passing since the teen's death.

"It's kind of upsetting; we liked it there," said Jose Rincon, the boy's father.

The family visited the bike because it gave them a sense of comfort, Rincon said.

"The fact that they're white gives you a sense of peace and pureness," he said. "We liked it there; we'd like to see it there, and we are going to work on getting it back."

The Tucson Police Department did not receive calls reporting the missing bicycle Thursday, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a police spokesman.