MYRA LEWIS

MADISON COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) -

We are being told that the missing Madison County toddler case is now being treated as an abduction.

On Sunday evening the Mississippi Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for two-year-old Myra Lewis of Camden.

Multiple agencies were searching for the missing 2-year-old, who was last seen Saturday morning.

Metro One was also assisting in the search for the missing toddler on Sunday.

The search was called off Monday after the case classification changed.

Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker met with members of the FBI Monday.

Myra Lewis was last seen at her parents' home on Mount Pilgrim Road in Camden Saturday morning.

"Parents stated they last saw the two year old around 10 am yesterday (Saturday) morning there were several kids there. The father was watching an infant child inside the other children went outside to play and the two year old wandered off," said Sheriff Randy Tucker, Madison County Sheriff's Office. "We've searched approximately four square miles around this residence and unfortunately have not been able to locate Myra."

Sunday morning emergency crews continue to look for her in a rural area along Mount Pilgrim Road, where the family lives.

Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker said the toddler went missing around 10 a.m. Saturday, but his office didn't receive a phone call until 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

That's when several police agencies volunteers, and rescue crews started their search.  Even local volunteers pitched in.

"I thought about my baby and it could have been my baby and it's so sad she only 2 years old and it just deepens my heart because it could have been my child he's 2," said Cassandra Bacon, a local volunteer.

The family was too devastated to go on camera Sunday night, but Myra's mother did talk to us over the phone.

"I was leaving to go grocery shopping and I saw her walk back into the house with her sister," said Ericka Lewis, mother of the toddler.

Lewis said the child's father was inside the house.

Lewis described the toddler as 34" tall and weighs about 25 pounds.

Lewis said the little girl was last seen wearing a turquoise sweater with a black bear on the front and khaki pants with pink shiny shoes (tennis) with glitter on them.

Lewis said sometimes little Myra sucks her thumb upside down.

"We've got approximately 70 individuals in the woods here right now like I said we had about 250 last night so we've had the average Joe citizen, men, women and children come out. Anytime there's an infant involved especially one of this age you kind of pull at the heart strings of the community so we got the help," said Sheriff Tucker. 

"We just want her back home. We won't worry about pressing charges, we just want her back home safe," said Lewis.

If you have any information on Myra's whereabouts, please call 855-642-5378.

Relisha Rudd

Rilya Alert!

An 8-year-old girl is missing in Southeast Washington and police are asking for the public’s help in finding her.

D.C. Police say Relisha Rudd was last seen in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Avenue SE.
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Relisha had been staying at the D.C. General family shelter with her mother and stepfather for the past year, according to Channel 9′s Delia Gonçalves. Relisha’s stepfather says her mother — who is now hospitalized — gave Relisha to a male janitor who works at the shelter more than three weeks ago, but they haven’t seen the girl since.

Police were notified of Relisha’s disappearance Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities are looking for two vehicles possibly linked to Relisha — a black Honda Accord with D.C. tags EN2051, and a red Chevy Trailblazer with D.C. tags KAHLIL that has a large Redskins decal in the rear window.

Relisha’s stepfather says she suffers from severe migraines and may be in need of medication.

Police describe Relisha as a black female, standing 4 feet tall and weighing between 70 and 80 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, and a medium complexion.

Police ask anyone with information on Relisha’s whereabouts to call the Metropolitan Police Department at 202-727-9099, the Youth Investigations Division at 202-576-6768, or 911.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/03/20/police-looking-for-8-year-old-girl-missing-in-southeast-d-c/

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Alexis Tiara Murphy

The car of a missing Shipman teen was found in the parking lot of a Charlottesville movie theater Tuesday evening.

Alexis Tiara Murphy, 17, was last seen Saturday evening. Her family believes she was headed to Lynchburg to get hair extensi...ons for her senior portrait, her aunt Angela Taylor said Tuesday afternoon.

At roughly 9 p.m., 15 to 20 law enforcement officers — including FBI agents, Albemarle County police and Nelson County sheriff's deputies — surrounded a white Nissan Maxima in a darkened back corner of the Carmike Six cinema parking lot on Gardens Boulevard off U.S. 29 in Albemarle County.

The Virginia license plate number on the vehicle, WYN-3706, matched the one listed in a news release issued Tuesday by the FBI.

Police tape surrounded the vehicle, which had no apparent damage to the exterior as officers clustered behind the perimeter. Authorities on the scene declined to comment.

The theater is less than half a mile from the store where family members said Alexis worked.

As of Tuesday evening, authorities had not found Alexis and Nelson County Sheriff David Brooks said it was not immediately clear how the discovery of her car would affect efforts to locate her.

The search to find Alexis swelled Tuesday to include over 50 FBI agents, canine units and a state police helicopter.

Law enforcement searched an area 30 miles to the north and south of Lovingston, focusing special attention on U.S. 29, Brooks said Tuesday afternoon from the search command post at Tye River Middle School. She was last seen at the Liberty Gas Station on U.S. 29 in Shipman near her house.

Officers are collecting residential and commercial surveillance footage in the area for clues and following tips, he said.

The sheriff declined to comment on specifics of the case, including whether search warrants had been filed and if he expects to make any arrests during the investigation.

Brooks noted there does not appear to be a threat to the public.

Authorities are asking for help to find Alexis.

“No bit of information is too small,” the FBI emphasized in a Tuesday evening news release.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen friends and family members gathered at her Shipman home hoping for good news.

Taylor described her niece as “a fun-loving person” whose interests ranged from fashion to photography to her Nelson County High School volleyball team.

While other students may dread the end of summer, Alexis was excited to go back to school so she could play volleyball, cousin Angela Vest said.

She said she doubts the Alexis would have run away.

“She was a good girl. … The whole thing is just unbelievable,” Vest said.

Taylor said the rising senior had begun looking at colleges. She was considering pursuing a career in accounting.

Alexis was a responsible young woman, always clocking into work on time at Kid to Kid, the clothing store where she had recently begun working, Taylor said.

And she always called ahead if she was running late as curfew approached.

“Her cell phone is like her sixth finger,” Taylor said, which is why her family found it disconcerting when she stopped answering the phone in recent days.

Now, calls to her phone go straight to voicemail, her aunt explained.

Friends and family have been spreading the word of Alexis’s disappearance through Facebook and flyers posted around town, watching the hours pass with no word of Alexis.

“It’s just unreal. I would not wish this on my worst enemy — to go through this,” Taylor said.

Alexis is described as a black teenager with brown eyes and hair standing 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 156 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a pink blouse, floral-print spandex pants and brown boots and was carrying a grey purse.

Anyone with information on her disappearance is urged to contact authorities at (434) 263-7050.

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/article_0785879a-feff-11e2-9b11-0019bb30f31a.html

Daphne Viola Webb

 

Police are searching an area of Oakland near 79th and International Boulevard for a missing child.

The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert in the case. The alert was issued from Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties....

Police said the toddler's father told them he went into Jazzali's Liquor on the 1400 block of 79th Avenue about 11 a.m. When he returned the child was gone.

Daphne Viola Webb is 11 months old. She was in the car with a relative, who is reportedly disabled. When the father came back to the car, the relative was there, but said his child was gone.

Police said they are searching the area with dogs and have launched a helicopter.

The father and other relatives are also being interviewed, according to police.

An Ambert Alert may be activated in the case by the California Highway Patrol.

Daphne is a black female with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing orange pajamas with pink hearts.

The suspect was only described as a light skinned black female.

There are no vehicles associated with this case.

If you see them call 911.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Oakland-Police-Search-for-Missing-Child-214978071.html