Police are searching for a 15-year-old Monterey Park girl who disappeared Tuesday after leaving her home on her bicycle.
Alison Jillian Chao left her residence in the 200 block of North Ynez Avenue in Monterey Park around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to visit a relative’s home in the nearby city of San Gabriel, but never arrived, according to the Monterey Park Police Department. A search was launched within hours, police said.
Posters posted on lampposts and light poles in her neighbourhood and in the nearby Alhambra neighbourhood read that Alison was wearing a blue T-shirt and black shorts and carrying a black backpack when she rode off on a blue mountain bike. The posters include an image of Alison pedalling away from her home with her hair in a ponytail.
Police described the teen as an Asian woman with black hair and brown eyes. She is about 5'2″ and weighs about 90 pounds.
According to a website dedicated to finding her, the last confirmed sighting of Alison was on Main Street in Alhambra shortly after she left her home on Tuesday.
“The longer it goes on, the scarier it gets,” the teen’s mother, Annie Chao, told KTLA on Friday. “I haven’t slept in days and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare.”
Those with information are asked to call the Monterey Park Police Department at 626-573-1311.
Times staff writer Karen Kaplan contributed to this report.
