TN SEQUOIA SAMUELS: Missing from Memphis, TN - 15 June 2023 - Age 4 *Found Deceased*

4-year-old girl missing from home; front door found open

The young girl, Saquoia Samuels, was reported missing Thursday morning.

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4-year-old girl missing from home; front door found open​

Memphis Police Department is searching for a missing child.

Saquoia Samuels, 4, was reported missing Thursday morning.

Police issued a city watch at 7:55 a.m. after parents say they woke up to find the front door of their home open and Saquoia missing.

Police say they are reviewing footage from a neighbor’s doorbell camera that shows her leaving the home and walking by herself around 3 a.m.

There are also drones in the area searching for the girl.

 

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Memphis police searching for missing 4-year-old girl with feeding tube

Memphis police searching for missing 4-year-old girl with feeding tube​

Memphis police are asking for help locating a toddler who was reported missing Thursday morning.

Police said a resident of a home in the 200 block of Caldwell Street woke up Thursday and discovered that Saquoia Samuels, 4, was missing. The front door of the home was open.

Deputy Chief Paul Wright told media it's unclear at what time the child left her home, but she was last seen on camera walking in the area alone at 3 a.m.; her parents called MPD for help around 6 a.m.

Samuels is about 3-foot-tall and weighs 30 lbs and has a feeding tube on the left side of her stomach, according to the Memphis Police Department. The child was last seen wearing a light-blue shirt, black pants with hearts on them and pink shoes.

Memphis police said the child has special needs that require the use of a feeding tube. That concern is compounded by the heat in Memphis. Thursday's high temperatures are expected to be in the mid-80s, but humidity and a clear sky will raise the heat index.

Memphis police have a multi-block search grid set up in the area Samuels was last seen. A helicopter, K-9 units and other law enforcement agencies are assisting in the search. As police briefed members of the media, several of the child's relatives could be seen walking throughout the neighborhood, repeatedly calling out for the toddler.

Anyone who spots Samuels is asked to call 911. Police are also urging residents of the area to work with them by answering the door and letting officers look through backyards.

 

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MPD going door-to-door to search for missing 4-year-old, parents woke to find door open and girl gone

Saquoia is 3 feet tall, and she has a feeding tube on the left side of her stomach. She was last seen wearing a light blue shirt, black pants with colored hearts.

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MPD going door-to-door to search for missing 4-year-old, parents woke to find door open and girl gone​

Memphis Police Department (MPD) issued a Missing Endangered Child Alert for 4-year-old Saquoia Samuels, who disappeared from her home Thursday morning. The little girl has a feeding tube.

According to MPD, Saquoia was reported missing about 6:30 a.m. June 15, 2023, from the 200 block of Caldwell Ave. Investigators said that's when her parents woke and found the front door wide open with the girl nowhere to be found, MPD said.

Investigators said Saquoia is believed to be out by herself walking and was last seen on camera just after 3 a.m. They are conducting a door-to-door ground search and aerial and K9 units are also helping.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Praying.

She is small for a four year old.

Waiting for facts to shake out. Just this bit says reported at 6 and other at 6:30. Also waiting for more detail on video footage.

Hopefully we will have word shortly that she is found safe. Not counting on it but AM hoping.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

MPD updates missing child case to 'endangered'

The case for a 4-year old who went missing early Thursday morning in North Memphis was elevated to endangered child status, according to MPD.

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By Aarron Fleming, Daily Memphian
Updated: June 15, 2023 12:45 PM CT

The case for a 4-year old who went missing early Thursday morning in North Memphis was elevated to endangered child status, according to the Memphis Police Department.

Saquoia Samuels was last seen on camera leaving her home at in the 200 block of Caldwell Avenue around 3:07 a.m., MPD deputy chief Paul Wright said.

MPD elevated the search to endangered child status and has expanded its scope beyond Saquoia’s neighborhood, according to its most recent update at about 12:15 p.m. Thursday.

“Check your yards, check your cars,” MPD spokeswoman Theresa Carlson said.

 

[GrandmaBear]

We know she has a feeding tube, are there other developmental issues. Four isn't the wisest but it is probably the age that they are coming out of those toddler years and have some sense of danger and what to do or not to do with basic things. HOPING anyhow.... JUST hoping.

Not a lot of details here per the norm. I mean did she get herself dressed at this hour to leave or did she go to sleep in her clothes? I guess what she was wearing comes from the camera. I am just saying she was dressed apparently and not in pjs.

 

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[Summer_Breeze]

MPD updates missing child case to 'endangered'

The case for a 4-year old who went missing early Thursday morning in North Memphis was elevated to endangered child status, according to MPD.

dailymemphian.com

By Aarron Fleming, Daily Memphian
Updated: June 15, 2023 3:00 PM CT

Editor’s note: The Daily Memphian originally reported the missing child’s name with incorrect spelling based on MPD information. The story has been updated to reflect the correct spelling.

Sequoia Samuels was last seen on camera leaving her home at in the 200 block of Caldwell Avenue around 3:07 a.m., MPD deputy chief Paul Wright said.

 

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[Summer_Breeze]

TBI joins search for 4-year-old girl missing from home

The young girl, Sequoia Samuels, was reported missing Thursday morning.

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By Action News 5 Staff
Published: Jun. 15, 2023 at 10:47 AM EDT|
Updated: 30 minutes ago

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis Police Department is searching for a missing child.

Sequoia Samuels, 4, was reported missing Thursday morning.

Police issued a city watch at 7:55 a.m. after parents say they woke up to find the front door of their home open and Sequoia missing.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigations also issued an endangered child alert on behalf MPD.

 

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Presser from earlier. Not great news that she's still missing tonight.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Neighbor claims to have seen unknown man walking with missing girl

The case for a 4-year old who went missing early Thursday morning in North Memphis was elevated to endangered child status, according to MPD.

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Neighbor claims to have seen unknown man walking with missing girl​

A neighbor that lives near where 4-year-old Sequoia Samuels went missing early Thursday says she saw a man walking with Samuels shortly after Samuels’ parents discovered she was gone.

The Memphis Police Department has maintained there are no suspects in the case and that Samuels simply walked away from her home around 3 a.m. Thursday.

MPD public information officer Theresa Carlson said officers arrested a sex offender Thursday but was unsure of a time during an interview with The Daily Memphian.

He did not have ID and was transported to jail on violation of sex registration law, Carlson said. The sex offender case was in the same area the girl went missing.

Carlson said the cases are not connected at this time. She maintained Samuels walked away from her home.

Kathy Johnson, the neighbor, told The Daily Memphian that at around 7 a.m. Thursday, she noticed a Black man walking with Samuels out in front of her home.

“He didn’t have her by the hand, and that’s what grabbed my attention,” she said.

Later, she began to see neighbors looking for Samuels and saw police using canine units to locate her.

She said eventually police arrived at her house and showed her a picture of a man who she believed to be the one that she saw earlier with Samuels.

She was unsure of who the officers were with, noting they were wearing vests that read “task force.”



A local activist, Casio Montez, who attended an MPD update Thursday, disputed the claim that there is no suspect. Montez said he and others brought someone to officers.

“He was a person of interest because we went got him and brought him to you,” Montez said.

Montez declined to elaborate after the briefing when asked by The Daily Memphian.

 

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[GrandmaBear]

Hmmm..

Something very wrong here.. Not sure what but not liking this one.

Several odd things in the posts above.

An activist is involved and brought someone to LE's attention? Huh? And they went and "got" him and brought him to LE? Again, huh?

So it is a boyfriend with mom and not the child's father.

And cops shows the neighbor a picture of the correct man she saw with the child. That's interesting that they knew of or had a pic of the right man. Seems to me there IS a suspect. Was a sex offender placed in their area...? Meaning housed there and so it was easy to wonder if he was connected and to have a photo of the right man..?

All sorts of little things to wonder about...

So this "suspect" must have been known in the area or known to know the girl, her family or something that he was keyed in on so fast...

She allegedly walked out of the home but did she walk out alone, was lured out, called out, etc.? Because something isn't adding up here.

I still wonder why she was dressed at that hour...

I pray this little sweetheart is found safe but it is not looking good.

 

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Remains found during search for missing 4-year-old Memphis girl Sequoia Samuels; 2 people detained

Sequoia Samuels, who requires a feeding tube, was captured on a doorbell camera in her neighborhood walking Memphis streets alone about 3 a.m.

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[GrandmaBear]

I had to bite my tongue and not say God damn it but I just said it. I don't say that phrase. EVER. Forgive me God.

From the start with this it felt like the parents but the confusing part was her seen on video walking out. I kept questioning as it just seemed like the parents.

Not saying it is them as they haven't said but it did say they were with LE all day was it yesterday...? Made me even more sure but I didn't say so just kept wondering about the other things, etc...

I guess it isn't parents, it is mother and bf which is sooooo often the case. IF of course that is who they have in custody.

I guess I should stop for the moment leaping to the conclusion it is them but I am betting on it.

Poor little girl. EVIL ADULT PIECES OF EXCREMENT.

RIP beautiful girl with a beautiful name. You didn't deserve this.

Man this bites. Must be my tiredness and mood as they all hit but seeing this just now struck hard. I wasn't really hopeful, I figured it was the adults in the home but there was video that she left/walked out so I tried to trust it and thought maybe there was some hope even though all instincts said otherwise.

 

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I had to bite my tongue and not say God damn it but I just said it. I don't say that phrase. EVER. Forgive me God.

From the start with this it felt like the parents but the confusing part was her seen on video walking out. I kept questioning as it just seemed like the parents.

Not saying it is them as they haven't said but it did say they were with LE all day was it yesterday...? Made me even more sure but I didn't say so just kept wondering about the other things, etc...

I guess it isn't parents, it is mother and bf which is sooooo often the case. IF of course that is who they have in custody.

I guess I should stop for the moment leaping to the conclusion it is them but I am betting on it.

Poor little girl. EVIL ADULT PIECES OF EXCREMENT.

RIP beautiful girl with a beautiful name. You didn't deserve this.

Man this bites. Must be my tiredness and mood as they all hit but seeing this just now struck hard. I wasn't really hopeful, I figured it was the adults in the home but there was video that she left/walked out so I tried to trust it and thought maybe there was some hope even though all instincts said otherwise.

We still don't know if anybody is to blame for anything here. She possibly could have succombed to the elements and/or from medical conditions, etc. It also "possibly" might not even be her.

 

[GrandmaBear]

We still don't know if anybody is to blame for anything here. She possibly could have succombed to the elements and/or from medical conditions, etc. It also "possibly" might not even be her.

True but you did read beyond the picture didn't you, that a man and woman were detained? How do you detain someone if you don't know who the victim is?

 

[GrandmaBear]

And I carefully in my other post said IF in capital letters. They just aren't releasing info yet but they detained a man and woman. A child is missing. Remains were found.

Are you saying it was an accident? I have a scenario in my head that is far different with her being seen on camera. I'll wait to see if it pans out and is what I think.