Help of Public Sought in Search for Girl
Police are seeking help from the public in finding a 10-year-old South-Central Los Angeles girl who may have been abducted on her way to school Wednesday morning.
Erica Avance was last seen by her father, Eddie Avance, who walked her halfway to school about 8:30 a.m., said Det. Kelie Sturgis of the LAPD’s 77th Street Division.
“He thought she was going to school and when he went to pick her up at 3 p.m., he was notified that she had not been at school all day,” Sturgis said. Avance contacted police, who conducted a door-to-door search of homes within a one-mile radius of where Erica was last seen.
Police found two witnesses who said they saw Erica about 1:30 that afternoon with an African American woman between the ages of 27 and 29 walking southbound on Vermont Avenue near 76th Street, Sturgis said.
“Nobody has ever seen this person before,” Sturgis said.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (213) 485-4156 or (213) 485-4162 after midnight.
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