A 33-year-old mother and her 3-year-old daughter have not been seen since they vanished from a Clovis neighborhood more than two weeks ago, and police are now asking the public for help finding them. Jonicia Rochelle Newsome and her daughter, Faith Gennevieve Fox, were last seen around 1 p.m. on October 23 in the 300 block of West Ashlan Avenue.
Fresno Police need the community's help locating the pair, according to KMPH Fox 26. As reported by yourcentralvalley.com, Newsome and Fox were last seen on Friday, Oct. 23, around 1 p.m. in the 300 block of West Ashlan Avenue in Clovis.
Newsome is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing approximately 120 pounds, with brown eyes and long black braided hair. She was last seen wearing a long blue dress with sandals, per the same report. Her daughter, Faith, is 2 feet tall and weighs approximately 30 pounds, and she was last seen wearing a pink and purple sweater, black leggings, knee-high socks, and sandals.
What Investigators Know So Far
The evidence available so far does not establish what happened to Newsome or Fox after they were last seen on West Ashlan Avenue, or whether they have since been located. Anyone with information is asked to call the Fresno Police Department at 559-621-7000.
Cases like this one fall under a unit that handles a staggering volume of reports each year. A special report from the station found that roughly 80% of missing-person cases in Fresno County are handled by detectives at the Fresno Police Department, with just three investigators tracking down an estimated 3,000 people reported missing in Fresno annually. The same report cited figures describing 20,000 active missing-person cases statewide at the time, including 1,000 in Fresno County and 800 assigned to Fresno Police Department detectives, though the evidence does not specify when those figures were current.
Most Cases Involve Someone The Missing Person Knows
Detectives told the outlet that stranger abductions are very rare in Fresno, and that most suspicious cases involve someone the missing person already knows. The same special report noted that Fresno County had received 4,200 missing-person reports in a given year, with Fresno Police Department detectives reporting they had solved 3,200 of those, though the year in question was not specified in the available evidence.
Clovis has seen at least one missing-child case resolve quickly before. In February 2024, officers responding to a report of a missing child in Clovis found a woman shot inside a home and a 5-year-old girl missing, according to KMPH. Police said the girl was later found safe and was with relatives.
No such resolution has been reported in the search for Newsome and Fox. Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to contact investigators as the search continues.
