A 14-year-old East Hills girl has been missing since Wednesday night, and Pittsburgh police are asking the public for help finding her. Raniya Jeffries was last seen leaving her home on Parkhill Drive to board a bus toward Wilkinsburg, and her family reported her missing the next day.
What Police Know So Far
According to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson cited by WPXI, Jeffries left her Parkhill Drive home in East Hills on the evening of Nov. 11 to catch a bus headed toward Wilkinsburg. Her family reported her missing the following day, Nov. 12. Few other details about the circumstances of her disappearance have been released publicly.
A poster shared by her family describes Jeffries as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing between 120 and 130 pounds, with brown eyes and blonde hair, the station's report notes. She was last said to be wearing black leggings, a gray tank top and a light blue jacket.
How To Help
Anyone with information about Jeffries's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Pittsburgh police tip line at 412-323-7141, per the same account. No further updates on the search have been released at this time.
A Familiar Pattern In East Hills
Jeffries's case echoes another East Hills disappearance from several years earlier. In 2022, Pittsburgh police searched for 14-year-old Shaylynn Smith after she was last seen leaving her East Hills home around noon, according to a report carried by finance.yahoo.com. Detectives at the time said it was common for Smith to visit Wilkinsburg, the outlet reported. Smith was found safe by the morning of July 4, 2022, according to that same report. It is not known whether Jeffries's case will follow a similar path, and no update on her current status has been made public.
