A girl jogging early Friday was kidnapped near the University of Memphis, police said.
The lady, Eliza Fletcher, 34, was jogging round 4:20 a.m. when an “unknown individual” approached her and compelled her into an SUV within the space of Central Avenue and Zach H Curlin Street, Memphis police said in a statement.
The suspect was in a dark-colored car and was touring westbound on Central.
Fletcher’s private gadgets had been recovered however she has not been discovered. At the time of the kidnapping, she was sporting purple jogging shorts and a pink high.
Shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday, Memphis police introduced {that a} “vehicle of interest” had been situated and its driver detained for questioning.
“Eliza Fletcher has not been located,” the division tweeted. “This is an ongoing investigation.”Â
The FBI and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had been helping with the seek for the avid runner, kindergarten teacher, and mother of two.
At a news convention Saturday, police said safety video proof of a potential kidnapping raised the case’s precedence degree because it was remodeled from a lacking individual to an abduction.
Police had been known as to the college simply earlier than 8 a.m. to help campus police, and are urging anybody with information to name 911.
Dennis Romero, Daniela Mencos and Anthony Cusumano contributed.