HIAWAYA ROBINSON - 8 yo (9/14) - Prichard/Mobile, AL

Missing child alert issued for 8-year-old Prichard girl

Posted: Sep 17, 2014 4:50 PM EST Updated: Sep 18, 2014 7:40 PM EST

By WAFF.com Staff

 

Hiawaya Robinson (Source: Alabama DPS)

Updated: Sep 21, 2014 9:52 PM EST


PRICHARD, AL (WAFF) -

Alabama authorities are looking for a missing child from the Prichard area.

Hiawaya Robinson has been missing since Tuesday afternoon. She is 8 years old, last seen wearing a green-and-white ‘Hello Kitty' shirt with purple shorts. She has braids in her hair with clear beads.

She left her apartment going to her cousin's apartment in the same complex. She has not been seen since that time.

Prichard is about five miles northwest of Mobile.

Search dogs picked up the girl's scent along the edges of a wooded area nearby, according to NBC affiliate WPMI, who reports that a state helicopter will aid in the search for Robinson.

Prichard Interim Police Chief Michael Rowland told WPMI the circumstances did not meet the qualifications of an Amber alert because there is no indication of an abduction. He added that Robinson's name has been added to the National Crime Information Center database.



http://www.waff.com/story/26559757/missing-child-alert-issued-for-8-year-old-pritchard-girl

Family mourns as missing 8-year-old's body found

Posted: Sep 18, 2014 7:37 PM EST Updated: Sep 18, 2014 7:58 PM EST
By WAFF.com Staff

 

Hiawaya Robinson had been missing since Tuesday afternoon. (Source: AL DPS)

Updated: Sep 21, 2014 10:31 PM EST

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PRICHARD, AL (WAFF) -
A Mobile family is mourning the loss of an 8-year old girl.

Hiawaya Robinson had been missing for two days. Officials said a body was found covered in a ditch approximately a mile from her home in Prichard.

Investigators confirmed Thursday afternoon that body was that of Robinson.

Prichard's mayor said the thing he feared the worst had come upon his city, and that Robinson's death is being ruled a homicide.

Mayor Troy Ephriam said in a news conference attended by Mobile NBC affiliate WPMI the "person of interest" shown earlier in surveillance pictures standing behind Robinson is not a suspect in the investigation into the child's death.

However, he said she provided "valuable information" which will be used to further the investigation.

He said local police, state and federal authorities are working to bring swift justice for the grieving family and his city.

A public works official discovered Hiawaya's body in a ditch Thursday afternoon. That man said he called 911, but the girl was dead.

The Alabama Department of Public Safety issued a missing child alert for Robinson Wednesday, 24 hours after she went missing.

She was last seen leaving her apartment to go to her cousin's apartment in the same complex around 4:30 Tuesday afternoon.



http://www.waff.com/story/26572173/family-mourns-as-missing-8-year-olds-body-found