ALEXIS SULLIVAN-12/ BRITTANY MOSTELLA-14/ SHELBY NUNLEY-12 - Maryville TN

Police have issued an East and Middle Tennessee Endangered
Child Alert for a 12-year-old girl reported missing from a downtown Maryville group home Monday night.



Alexis Sullivan is a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is about 5 feet 5
inches tall, weighs 125 pounds and was last seen wearing a dark green shirt, black shorts and black
Nike shoes.


Brittany and Shelby

Sullivan is believed to be with two other girls, Brittany Mostella, 14, and Shelby
Nunley, 12, who were reported missing from the Johnson Group Home, 412 High Street, by an employee
at the facility Monday night at about 7:50 p.m.The employee reportedly advised police that
several girls at the home stated that Mostella and Nunley were planning to stab Sullivan with a pair
of scissors once they ran away. A pair of scissors was also reportedly missing from the facility.
The employee told police she believed Mostella took them before leaving out the rear of the home
with Nunley and Sullivan.Nunley is a white female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5
feet 2 inches tall, weighs 98 pounds and was last seen wearing an olive green jacket, black shirt,
red and black shorts, blue boxers and white Nike Air Force One sneakers. Mostella is a black
female with black hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 210 pounds and was last
seen wearing a black T-shirt, purple pajama pants and gray Levi’s shoes. Police suspect the
girls may be driving a 1995 Chevrolet K1500 white and red pickup truck with Tennessee license plate
ML2756, which was stolen from a parking lot on Washington Street Monday night. According to a
Maryville Police report, the owner of the pickup said the clear coat is peeling off the hood and
that several decals had been placed on the rear window, including Harley Davidson emblems as well as
“Look Out For Motorcycles” and Dale Earnhardt stickers.A metal tool box might also be seen in
the bed or rear-view window of the truck.An off-duty Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputy
saw black and white females near the pickup Monday night at around 8:50 p.m., according to the
report. After circling the block, he discovered the females and truck were both
missing.Police believe the subjects to be two of the runaway juveniles.The runaways
were last seen at a gas station Monday night at around 11 p.m. in Rockwood, according to the
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s website. Anyone with information is asked to call the
Maryville Police Department at 983-3620.

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The vehicle stolen by missing juveniles from a group home in Maryville, Tenn., has been recovered in Clarksville.


A 1995 Chevy K1500 pickup truck that was allegedly taken by Alexis
Sullivan, Brittany Mostella and Shelby Nunley was found today, according
to authorities.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Child
Alert after the girls disappeared from the Johnson Group Home in
Maryville, Tenn.
The girls may be armed with a pair of scissors that are missing from
the home. The girls were last seen at approximately 11 p.m. eastern time
on June 27 at a gas station in Rockwood, TN.
Police said Mostella, 14, and Nunley, 12, have made threats about harming Sullivan, 12, after running away from the group home.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570618/ns/local_news-nashville_tn/t/stolen-truck-recovered-girls-remain-missing/

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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - In a flurry of multiagency activity, three girls
who ran away from a Maryville group home were rounded up in Middle
Tennessee on Thursday morning.

The girls, ages 12 to 14, had run away Monday night in a stolen truck, which was later found in Clarksville, authorities said.

At about 8:45 a.m. Thursday, Alexis Sullivan, 12, walked into the
Austin Peay State University Police station and said she was turning
herself in.

About two hours later, Shelby Nunley, 12, was found near some
railroad tracks by Montgomery County sheriff's deputies who were acting
on a tip, according to Clarksville police spokesman Jim Knoll.

The last of the three, Brittany Mostella, 14, was caught at about
10:10 a.m. in a housing project by Clarksville police officers, Knoll
said.

The girls were reported missing at about 7:50 p.m. Monday from the Johnson Group Home in Maryville.

The employee told police that several girls said Mostella and Nunley
were planning to stab Sullivan with a pair of scissors once they ran
away, the Maryville Daily Times reported. A pair of scissors was
reported missing.

The girls were then seen at about 11 p.m. Monday at a gas station in
Rockwood, just west of Oak Ridge, driving a red and white 1995 Chevy
K1500 pickup that had been stolen from a funeral home parking lot,
according to Maryville Deputy Police Chief Greg Cooke.

The investigation turned to Clarksville when one of the girls contacted a family member there.

All three girls were unharmed, Knoll said. Clarksville police are coordinating their return to state custody.

Johnson Group Home is a residential facility for troubled girls. It
has a "Level 3" classification, which means it's for youth with "serious
mental health" needs, said Tennessee Department of Children's Services
spokesman Rob Johnson.http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/jul/01/3-girls-found-in-clarksville/