The guardians of a 14-year-old girl are clutching at straws following her baffling disappearance in Lynwood, with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department beseeching community members for aid in locating the young Evelyn Castellanos Cardenas. Cardenas, characterized as a Hispanic female around 5’04” in height and weighing an estimated 130 lbs. with brown hair and eyes, was last spotted on Thursday afternoon near Thorenson Avenue's 12000 block, according to a LASD Facebook post.
Donning a black sweater paired with grey pants and black shoes, the adolescent vanished without a trace, and the details surrounding her last movements stir a deep concern. Her family is yearning for her return and is reaching out to the public for any threads that could be pieced together to locate Evelyn, whom they described as 'at-risk,' though the specifics of her vulnerability have not been provided; the ominous label alone is enough to incite urgency and a collective call to action.
Anyone with information is being urged to step forward and communicate with Detective C. Smith at [email protected] or by phoning Century Station.
