A Georgia teenager has been missing for more than a week after completing her final exams, her family told news outlets.
Now they're asking the public for help to get them home.
Ashley Nevaeh Bell, 14, was last seen May 24 after class at Parkview High School in Lilburn, WXIA reported. She left around 10 a.m. and has not been seen or heard from since.
“She's quiet, she's a little antisocial, so she'll be in her own world a lot,” Ashley's father, Remon Bell, told WAGA. “She's a player… it's very, very different for her to go spontaneously.”
According to WSB-TV, Bell said Ashley and her sister should go together after exams. When her sister arrived in the parking lot, she found Ashley's laptop under the car and her debit card on the windshield, he told police.
Gwinnett County Schools officials said surveillance video showed the freshman student leaving campus, although it was not clear where she was going, WSB-TV reported.
According to WAGA, county police are investigating her disappearance.
McClatchy News reached out to Gwinnett County Public Schools on June 4 and was awaiting a response.
According to the GoFundMe, family members said Ashley was last seen wearing a white shirt, brown pants and black and white Converse shoes.
The teen's father said he believes his daughter may have been lured away by someone she met online, WAGA reported.
“We really believe she just talked to someone on an app and became friends with them, and then they lured her out,” Remon Bell told the station. “Because she never does anything like that.”
Ashley's family has since publicly pleaded for her safe return.
“If you’re watching, come home,” her father told WSB-TV. “No one is mad at you. We love you.”
Lilburn is located approximately 20 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.
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