Short
press briefing
LE - Okay, so I don't really have a whole lot of details to provide you, other than what we've already released. We received a call around 7.45 this morning from the University of Memphis. We came over to assist at this location around central and Zach Curlin. When we arrived on the scene we were handling, possibly, a missing person. After further investigation we found video that did show a black SUV pull into the area, across the street here, where the victim was taken. We're unable to Identify the suspect but we do know that the vehicle is a dark coloured SUV.
Reporter - Where you able to obtain that video from? Was it like a neighbour or...?
LE - I don't know exactly where the video came from but we have reviewed it and pushed out the photo of the SUV.
Reporter - So obviously as this happened so close to U of M - Are there any concerns with the students here, or anything like that?.
LE - So, at this time we don't believe there is, but we're following up on this investigation. It's very important that if anybody knows the whereabouts of Miss Fletcher to contact the police immediately.
Reporter - There wasn't an exact description of what she was wearing at the time - Can anybody provide those details?
LE - So, yes we recently sent out another City Watch and she had a pink athletic top, and blue shorts and tennis shoes. And we have contacted... FBI's on the scene that's assisting us. We've contacted TBI that's also assisting us and we're working with the University of Memphis.
Reporter - Just to reflect on, you know - What triggered this massive presence from law enforcement that we're seeing out here right now?
LE - Well, originally it started out as a missing person and after we actually found information and saw a video where somebody was abducted, then that's going to raise the alarm.
Reporter - In light of this incident, does MPD plan on stepping up patrol in this area, given that so many people are on edge?
LE - Yes, we'll have officers all in the area, of course.
Reporter - A couple weeks ago when classes started up with U of M. The U of M cross country team, men and women, had someone harassing the women's team - Does this have any connection to that? They also mentioned a dark SUV?
LE - Yeah, I'm not aware of any connection at this time. So at this time that's all we've got but we will continuously push out information as we get it, but again, our concern is to locate Miss Fletcher, so if anybody knows where she's at call the police immediately.
Reporter - The description says she has brown hair - Some people are telling me she has blonde hair.
LE - (
confirms it's blonde)
