Around two dozen family members and volunteers scoured the lake and neighborhood around Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home Sunday, March 24 searching for any types of clues that could help in finding a missing Flint woman.
―>Tanisha Colton, 27, a mother of three children was last seen Wednesday, March 13 leaving work from Heritage Manor Healthcare Center on Beecher Road.
Mark Sadler, Tanisha’s cousin, said the family has filed a report with police, as well as “handing out fliers, doing searches” and thanked “people like this going out of their way to search for her too.”
He said a forensics team was at the home last week, but Sadler said they still have more questions than answers about Colton's disappearance. Flint Police Chief Alvern Lock could not be reached for comment Sunday.
Sadler was among search parties Saturday and Sunday for Colton along with Qon Thompson, who organized the Facebook page “Where is Tanisha Colton?” and volunteers to help aid in the search.
“I started the page last week Wednesday (March 20), and I have just been trying to put the word out,” said Thompson. Search party members looked around the Forest Park area Saturday and were backtracking Sunday to locations around the 5000 block of Gillespie Street where Colton lives.
Shirron McKinley joined the group Sunday around Flint Lake, widely known as “Devil’s Lake,” walking through tall grass and water-logged, muddy earth along the ice-covered body of water.
“I wanted to help out because I know the kids,” said McKinley, a bus monitor for the International Academy of Flint where two of Colton’s children attend school. “Everybody is aware of what’s going on.”
Flint resident Bennie Robertson lives in the neighborhood near where Colton resides, stating his children grew up around the family.
“You do what you can to help,” he said, while searching through piles of trash and leaves along Winthrop Boulevard. “It’s just bad circumstances.”
Sadler said the family is searching in areas where Colton frequented, and he held onto hope they would find her while sending out a message to those in the Flint community who may have any clues as to her whereabouts.
“We’d be grateful for any information they can give us,” he said. “Just pray for us. We’re keeping (the) faith alive she’s still out there.”
Anyone with information may contact Flint police at 810-237-6800.
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