Found Safe NY - Dulce Lopez, 31, Bronx, calls herself Beyonce, 18 Dec 2021

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The missing is described as a 31-year-old female, Hispanic, approximately 5’05” tall, weighing 160 lbs., with brown eyes, and long black hair.

Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call the NYPD‘s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1–800–577–TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1–888–57–PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers‘ website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
Dulce Lopez, 31, Missing | The Bronx Daily | Bronx.com

“I know she was under a lot of stress,” Brinson said of her daughter, Dulce Lopez, 31. “Then her mind just [broke] down.”

Bronx residents who live near the K&M Mini Mart on Bainbridge Avenue and East 207th Street decided to reach out to the mother after they saw a notice on Citizen App that Dulce Lopez was missing.

They recognized Lopez as the same woman who had spent time sitting on a crate outside the market in mid-December.

“She said her name was Beyonce when I met her,” one resident said. “That’s the name she was giving everybody.”

When Bainbridge Avenue shoppers observed the missing flyer on Citizen, they saw contact information for Dulce Lopez’s mother and reached out on Facebook.

The worried mom flew to New York on Dec. 19 and went to the location where Lopez was last seen at the mini-mart. A detective who was working on the case sent the mother surveillance images from inside the market, taken about Dec. 16, when Lopez first showed up on Bainbridge Avenue.

“It breaks my heart when I see those pictures,” the mother told PIX11 News, “because I really know she needs help.”

“She had one maybe a year or two ago,” Darlene Lopez recalled, “and she had just gotten stable, had a job in the Bronx [and] was working.”

Lopez’s mother said her daughter seemed stressed out about a new relationship. Dulce Lopez, she said, was renting a basement apartment with a boyfriend in another part of the Bronx. The mother was so concerned about her daughter’s mental health that she asked local police to do a “wellness check.”

“They put her in the ambulance,” Noemy Brinson told PIX11 News, “and they saw she wasn’t right in the mind, and they still didn’t take her to the hospital.”

Residents near the K&M Mini Mart said Dulce Lopez showed up on Bainbridge Avenue about two weeks after she last had contact with her Texas family.

“She said, ‘I never was like this before,'” Christina, who didn’t want her last name used, told PIX11 News.

Christina went on to say that Dulce Lopez said, “I worked in Texas, I had a car and I had a house.”

“She said she rides the trains,” Christina told PIX11 News, “to get out from the streets. She has nowhere to sleep, she was in shelters, and just basically was riding trains.”

Dulce Lopez was last seen on Bainbridge Avenue on Saturday, Dec. 18, near East 206th Street. Her mother flew to New York the next day.

“Christmas, I was on the street,” said Noemy Brinson, as her voice broke. “The last day of the year, too.”

Brinson mostly walks the streets, looking for her daughter, but she takes trains and buses, too. She is unfamiliar with this part of the Bronx. She said her family moved to Texas 20 years ago.

“There’s flyers everywhere,” Brinson said, her voice filled with pain. “There’s flyers, but nobody calls. Nobody says anything.”

“I try to keep my faith,” Brinson said, “I try to think she’s going to be okay and pray that the angels can be around her.”

“I would say we’re here to help you,” the anguished mother said. “We’re here to protect you, you don’t have to be afraid. Your family’s here looking for you. And we love you so much. Call us.”
Bronx residents help Texas mom search for missing daughter who ‘said her name was Beyonce’ | PIX11

Dulce Lopez, 31, was last seen on Nov. 29 at her apartment on Casanova Street in the Bronx. Her mother, Noemy Brinson, flew from her home in Longview to New York City on Dec. 16 to search for her daughter. Lopez is a graduate of Pine Tree High School and had lived in New York for about a year, according to her mother.

“Even though I’m only one person, I felt I had to do something,” Brinson told KLTV 7 via FaceTime.

Brinson said a woman she believes to be her daughter was seen on surveillance video captured at a convenience store on Dec. 16. She said her daughter had suffered from mental illness and didn’t seem herself in phone conversations had before she disappeared. Her family said she had suffered manic depressive episodes before moving to the Bronx.
East Texas woman searching for daughter missing in New York City

 

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Found! It's a testament to her mom's dedication and devotion.

Texas mom finds missing daughter Dulce Lopez in Bronx after 2-month search

THE BRONX (PIX11) — The Texas mother of a Bronx woman missing for two months said she found her 31-year-old daughter, Dulce Lopez, near the Grand Concourse Monday afternoon.

“She was with a Honduran family,” Noemy Brinson said about her daughter. “They took her in for five days.”

Brinson and her daughter are Honduran immigrants who first lived in the Bronx after emigrating. But most of the family has been living in Longview, Texas for the last 20 years. Lopez moved back to the Bronx about a year ago after getting a job as a receptionist.

“She was for two months on the street,” Brinson said about her daughter, who had suffered some kind of mental health episode. “No shelter could take her with no ID.”

The grateful mother sent PIX11 News a photo of Lopez kissing her mom’s cheek. Another photo showed the two embracing.

Lopez lost contact with her family shortly after Thanksgiving. They said she sounded very stressed and scared during a Nov. 28 phone call because she was having difficulties with a new boyfriend. The couple had been living in a basement apartment in the Bronx. The mother said she learned an ambulance had shown up at the apartment because Lopez was having some kind of breakdown.

The mother flew to New York on Dec. 19 after several Bronx women contacted her on Facebook. They said her daughter was sitting outside a deli on Bainbridge Avenue calling herself “Beyonce.” A surveillance video from the store on Dec. 16 showed Lopez looking very out of sorts, although the mole on her left cheek was very distinctive. But Lopez was gone by the time her mother arrived in New York.

Brinson had spent weeks walking Bronx streets and riding the subways in search of her daughter. At one point, the mother received a tip about a sighting on Broadway and West 103rd Street in Manhattan, asking family members to take her there.

This past week, Brinson moved her search to the Broadway Junction transit hub in Brooklyn after hearing reports her daughter was riding the “C” train.

Brinson said her daughter called her this morning from the Bronx family’s home, unaware that her mother had been searching here for weeks. Lopez reportedly told her mother she was afraid her boyfriend would find her.

“She saw flyers,” Noemy Brinson told PIX11 News. “She thought it was her boyfriend looking for her.”

Brinson said she went to the Bronx home Monday and reunited with her daughter.

“I ran to her and we hugged,” the joyful mother said. “When we FaceTimed with the family in Texas, we all cried.”

Brinson said her daughter was often riding trains during the last two months, traveling between the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

“She was outside for the big snow,” the mother said. “She said, ‘Oh my God, today I’m going to die.'”

“She doesn’t even want to go outside right now,” the mother added.

But Brinson said she’s bringing her daughter home to Texas later this week.

“Last night, at like 3 in the morning, I was praying for hours on my knees,” the mother said. “I cannot take anymore,” Brinson recalled saying to God. “Tomorrow, I have to receive the news.”

The phone call came Monday morning.

Brinson said her daughter was resting Monday evening, still recovering from her ordeal.

“I’m so happy it’s a happy ending,” Brinson told PIX11 News. “There are so many tragedies.”

 

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Perfect ending!