WASHINGTON — Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 25-year-old woman who was last seen in October.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, detectives are searching for Chyna Crawford.
Crawford was reported missing after she disappeared on Monday, October 23. She was last seen in the 1600 block of Good Hope Road Southeast.
Police are on the lookout for Crawford's car, a gray 2012 Mercedes Benz CLS550 with Virginia temporary license plate 998859V, which is also missing.
It has been over 10 days since Elisa Crawford heard from her daughter.
“Things weren’t thrown all over. It just looks like she left one day to go out and run errands and just never came back,” Elisa Crawford said after MPD conducted a wellness check on her daughter. She says the apartment was clean and her work laptop was missing.
Crawford is described as a Black woman, standing 5-foot-7, weighing around 120 pounds with long black dreadlocks and brown eyes.
Elisa said she has three distinguishing marks: a scar on her torso, a tattoo on her side that says "Anthony," and a tattoo heart with devil horns on the right side of her chest.
On Saturday, November 4, her family and friends met up near where she went missing to canvass the community.
They passed out flyers in neighborhoods she frequented and searched nearby woods for any sign of her.
"I haven’t been eating, not sleeping. It just don’t feel real," Crawford's older sister, Gabi said.
Elisa is convinced her daughter was kidnapped.
“I was gonna come over and visit her that Saturday, so we had plans," she said. "And I know that my daughter is missing not by her own free will.”
Although DC Police have not yet said they believe a crime has taken place, on Saturday the department confirmed it had learned of "suspicious circumstances" surrounding Crawford's disappearance.
"During the investigation, there was some information we received that led us to believe there may be some suspicious circumstances surrounding her disappearance," Assistant Chief Carlos Heraud said.
"If I could talk to my daughter right now, I would just say, 'Please baby, call me, get a message to me by any means. I will come get you. You know everything will be forgiven. I know this is not something you are doing on your own. It's against your will because you wouldn't hurt me this way,'" Elisa Crawford said.
She describes her daughter as a tough cookie who also had the sweetest soul.
"Any time they called Chyna needing something, Chyna would always stop what she was doing and come. That's the type of person she was. She was very giving," she said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at (202) 727-9099 or text the department's tip line at 50411.
“She’s my baby. That’s my love. It just feels like a piece of my heart is missing," Elisa said.
You can also reach out directly to family members at 202-706-2838 or 202-725-2393. The family has created a GoFundMe to be able to offer a reward to someone who can come forward with information that aids in Crawford's search and rescue. Click here for the GoFundMe.
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