Tennessee AMBER Alert: Missing 2-Year-Old Girl Found Safe
By Jason Hall
October 20, 2020
UPDATE:
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has confirmed June Simpson was located early Tuesday morning and is safe.
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A statewide AMBER Alert has been issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for a missing 2-year-old girl in Tennessee.
June Simpson was reported missing from Sullivan County by the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office Monday night, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced.
June was reportedly last seen earlier in the evening along Mitchell Road in Kingsport, which is located in the Eastern Star community of Sullivan County, Tennessee. She was reportedly last seen wearing a pink shirt, gray leggings and purple unicorn boots prior to her disappearance.
June is described as a 3'0," 35 lb white female with blonde hair and blue eyes.
#TNAMBERAlert: We need your help to find 2-year-old June Simpson, who is missing from Sullivan County.
— Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (@TBInvestigation) October 20, 2020
She was reportedly last seen this evening along Mitchell Road in Kingsport, which is located in the Eastern Star Community.
If you have seen June, call 1-800-TBI-FIND! pic.twitter.com/IiCf03tRa7
Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to contact Sullivan County Sheriff's Office at (423)-279-7330 or the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
AMBER Alert is an alert distributed by a child abduction alert system to seek public assistance in locating abducted children that was launched in the United States in 1996. The alert, which was named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old who was abducted and murdered in 1996, is a backronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
As of May 2020, 988 children were rescued specifically because of AMBER Alert and 66 children were rescued because of wireless emergency alerts, according to the AMBER Alert section on the Department of Justice's website.