ESAELA HARIRI - 17 yo - LaVergne TN

A Middle Tennessee Endangered Child Alert has been issued for the LaVergne Police Department.


Esaela Hariri, 17, left her La Vergne home through a bedroom window sometime
after 12:30 a.m. Friday. Esaela takes medication and injections. Esaela
left a suicide note. Clothing description is unknown. Esaela may be in
the Long Hunter State Park area.

If you have seen this child or
the vehicle, please contact the LaVergne Police Department at
615-793-7744 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

Aerial and K-9 searches for a missing La Vergne teen have concluded,
but a search of J. Percy Priest Lake is now underway, said La Vergne
Police Capt. Stace Thompson.
Esaela Hariri, 17, left a suicide note at her home on Waldron Road before
leaving out of a bedroom window between 12:30 and 6:55 Friday morning,
Thompson said. He said there were no issues within the family that
would cause her to leave, but that she did have a medical condition,
which he would not disclose.La Vergne investigators are
working with Metro Nashville police to find Hariri.
“The chief investigator has determined she was suffering from an illness.
She hadn’t written any letters of suicide, buy more along the lines of
farewell. The letters talked about the pain she was in because of her
illness,” the captain said.Officers found her 2009 Chevy Malibu near
Long Hunter State Park around 9 a.m. today, Thompson added.
Investigators have not been able to find anyone that may have had
contact with Hariri before her disappearance. “We’re
doing everything we can to help Metro find her. We’d like to pin down
all the facts and would appreciate all the cooperation we can get in
finding her,” Thompson said.

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Police in La Vergne and Nashville are looking for a 17-year-old girl who left her
La Vergne home after midnight Friday.An endangered child alert has been issued
for Esaela Hariri, said La Vergne Police Chief Ted Boyd.“We
know she left through a bedroom window sometime between 12:30 and 7
this morning,” Boyd said. “Her car has been found at Long Hunter State
Park and Metro has been searching for her with helicopters.”The
teen also left a suicide note at her home, he said. She takes
prescription medication, some via injection. No clothing description
was available.La Vergne Police Capt. Stace Thompson said
he hoped to have more information from investigators from the Metro
Nashville Police Department soon.Hariri is 5 feet 3 inches tall,
weighs 110 pounds and has brown hair and eyes.Anyone
with information is asked to call LaVergne Police Department at
615-793-7744 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

Police unsuccessfully employed aerial, K-9 and boat searches to look
for a 17-year-old girl who left her La Vergne home after midnight
Friday.Esaela
Hariri, 17, left a note at her home on Waldron Road before leaving out
of a bedroom window between 12:30 and 6:55 Friday morning, La Vergne
Police Capt. Thompson said.Metro
Nashville officers are leading the investigation as Hariri's 2009 Chevy
Malibu was found around 9 a.m. near Long Hunter State Park in Davidson
County Friday, he said.Around
2 p.m., Metro's Office of Emergency Management used SONAR equipment to
search J. Percy Priest Lake, but the search had been called off by 4:30
p.m. Thompson said it was likely to resume today.The family had not been faced with any issues that would cause her to leave home, Thompson said."The
chief investigator has determined she was suffering from an illness.
She hadn't written any letters of suicide, but more along the lines of
farewell. The letters talked about the pain she was in because of her
illness," the captain said, declining to disclose the medical condition.Hariri takes prescription medication, some via injection. No clothing description was available.By
late Friday afternoon, investigators had not been able to find anyone
that may have had contact with Hariri before her disappearance."We're
doing everything we can to help Metro find her. We'd like to pin down
all the facts and would appreciate all the cooperation we can get in
finding her," Thompson said.The door at the family's home went unanswered during a visit Friday afternoon.Hariri is 5-feet 3-inches tall, weighs 110 pounds and has brown hair and eyes.Anyone
with information is asked to call La Vergne Police Department at
615-793-7744 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

Divers from the Office of Emergency Management late this morning
recovered the body of 17-year-old Esaela Hariri from Percy Priest Lake
at the Hobson Pike Bridge.Hariri,
of Waldron Road in LaVergne, was reported missing to LaVergne Police by
her parents Friday morning after they discovered that she left home
during the night. Her car was located yesterday near Long Hunter State
Park.Hariri had health issues. Her death is being investigated as an apparent suicide.Hariri
left a suicide note at her home on Waldron Road before leaving out of a
bedroom window between 12:30 and 6:55 Friday morning, according to La
Vergne Police Capt. Stace Thompson. He said there were no issues within
the family that would cause her to leave, but that she did have a
medical condition, which he would not disclose."My heart goes out to her family," Thompson said.