Kelsie Lee, 12 Year Old, Missing Since March 10, 2014 - Gwinnett County, Georgia

Kelsie Lee

Search for missing 12-year-old girl ends for the day

Posted: 8:47 p.m. Monday, March 10, 2014



By Alexis Stevens

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The day-long search for a missing 12-year-old Gwinnett County girl ended at dark Monday. But Kelsie Lee was still missing 12 hours after her disappearance, police said.

“We’ve done everything we could possibly do at this point,” Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said. “The search of the immediate area is coming to an end.”

Kelsie was reported missing from her Peachtree Corners home around 8:45 a.m. when her mother returned from taking a sibling to school, police said. Another sibling reported that Kelsie had gone outside to take out the trash, but never returned. She never arrived at school.

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Kelsie has long, curly brown hair, blue eyes, weighs about 100 pounds and is 5-foot-2, police said. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a long black sweater with a western motif.

Anyone with information on the girl’s whereabouts is asked to call the Gwinnett County Police at 770-513-5300 or 911.

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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/search-for-missing-12-year-old-girl-ends-for-the-d/nd9Xr/

Community rallies in desperate hunt for girl, 12, who took out the trash and vanished

. Kelsie Lee of Peachtree Corners, Georgia was reported missing by her mother at 8:45am Monday
. Neighbors and friends joined police in a desperate manhunt that dragged into the evening as authorities ran out of leads

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 18:56 EST, 10 March 2014  | UPDATED: 20:12 EST, 10 March 2014

A 12-year-old Georgia girl vanished Monday morning after leaving the house just to take out the trash while her mother was away taking her brother to school.

The frantic mother of Kelsie Lee of Peachtree Corners reported her daughter missing around 8:45am and a desperate search for the girl ensued.

While community members and friends eager to help authorities find Kelsie swarmed to aid in the search, by Monday evening police said they were quickly running out of leads.

   
Into thin air: Kelsie Lee left her Peachtree Corners, Georgia home Monday morning just to take out the trash when she vanished

Kelsie was with her sister in their comfortable Gwinnett County home when she told her sister she was taking out the garbage.

The 5-foot-2, blue eyed girl wore a long black sweater with a western motif, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when she was last seen in the 4500 block of Jones Bridge Circle.

A police helicopter was dispatched and a command center set up at a nearby church around as the neighborhood rallied to find Kelsie.

'When we heard about it, we just dropped everything to see how we could assist,' volunteer Gwendolyn Richardson told MyFoxAtlanta.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577937/Community-rallies-desperate-hunt-girl-12-took-trash-vanished.html#ixzz2vcbqjWFv

UPDATE: FOUND SAFE!!!

Neighbor finds missing Gwinnett girl walking down street, returns home safe

Updated: 11:41 p.m. Monday, March 10, 2014 | Posted: 10:33 a.m. Monday, March 10, 2014

PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. — Gwinnett County police tell Channel 2 Action News that a 12-year-old girl, the subject of a day long search, has returned home and is safe.

Police said Kelsie Lee was found by a neighbor walking along West Jones Bridge Road.

The neighbor said she recognized the girl and asked her if she was in fact Kelsie, who told the neighbor yes.

Kelsie was reported missing around 10 a.m. from the Jones Bridge Circle area of Peachtree Corners. Kelsie told her sister she was going to dump the trash, and never returned, police said. Kelsie's mother notified police after learning that her daughter never made it to school.

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/12-year-old-girl-missing-peachtree-corners/nd87p/