14-year-old girl vanishes on last day of school, Georgia family says. ‘Come home’
A Georgia teen has been missing for more than a week after finishing her final exams, her family told news outlets.
Now they’re asking for the public’s help to bring her home.
Ashley Nevaeh Bell, 14, was last seen May 24 after classes let out at Parkview High School in Lilburn, WXIA reported. She left at about 10 a.m. and hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
“She’s quiet, she’s antisocial a little bit, so she’ll be in her own world a lot,” Ashley’s dad, Remon Bell, told WAGA. “She is a gamer ... for her to leave at just the spur of the moment is really, really different.”
Bell said Ashley and her sister were supposed to leave together after exams, according to WSB-TV. Her sister arrived at the parking lot to find Ashley’s laptop under the car and her debit card on the windshield, he told the station.
Gwinnett County Schools officials said surveillance video showed the freshman leaving campus, though its not clear where she went, WSB-TV reported.
The district’s police department is investigating her disappearance, according to WAGA.
McClatchy News reached out to Gwinnett County Public Schools on June 4 and was awaiting response.
Family members said Ashley was last seen wearing a white shirt, brown pants and black and white Converse shoes, according to a GoFundMe.
The teen’s father said he believes his daughter may have been lured away by someone she met online, WAGA reported.
“We really think that she was just talking to someone on an app and became friends with them, and they lured her out,” Remon Bell told the station. “Because she never do anything like this.”
Ashley’s family has since made public pleas for her safe return.
“If you’re watching, come home,” her father told WSB-TV. “No one’s mad at you. We love you.”
Lilburn is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.
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