Concerns were growing today about the welfare of two Murrieta middle school girls who walked off campus earlier this week and haven’t been seen since.
Kira Keys
Odelea Justin
The sixth-graders, 13-year-old Kira Keys and 12-year-old Odelea “Dede” Justin, have been missing since Tuesday morning, when they met up at Dorothy McEhinney Middle School before the start of classes and left less than an hour later, according to Murrieta Valley Unified School District officials.
Riverside County sheriff’s investigators believe the girls are runaways.
“There is currently no reason to suspect foul play,” said sheriff’s Cpl. Courtney Donowho. “All evidence indicates these girls left the school
together without coercion from anyone else.”
Campus surveillance video showed the girls walking away from the grounds around 8:50 a.m.
Kira’s mother reported her missing when she arrived to retrieve her daughter that afternoon and learned the 13-year-old had not attended any of her classes, officials said.
Kira is black, light-skinned, about 5-foot-3 and 130 pounds, with brown eyes and straight brown shoulder-length hair. She wears eyeglasses.
Odelea is black, about 5-foot-5 and 118 pounds, with long braided black hair.
Anyone with information about their whereabouts was asked to call the sheriff’s Southwest Detective Bureau at 951-696-3000
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