Solano County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for 15-year-old Pearl Pinson.
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California Highway Patrol units converge on a street in Solvang, Calif., after pursuing a vehicle being sought in a statewide Amber Alert in the disappearance of a Northern California 15-year-old girl, in Southern California, May 26, 2016.
Fernando Castro, 19, whose auto was tied to an Amber Alert for 15-year-old Pearl Pinson, shot at sheriff’s deputies who spotted the vehicle Thursday and chased him to mobile home park in Santa Barbara County, about 300 miles south of where she was taken a day earlier, Solano County Sheriff Thomas Ferrara said.
As investigators focus their search for a missing Vallejo teen in Sonoma County, Pearl Pinson’s family is doing what they can to help find her.
The witness said that as she began to run to get help, a shot rang out.
The Solano County Sheriff’s Office said it received several shots-fired calls near a pedestrian bridge that leads into Vallejo.
The investigation took a turn Thursday when authorities spotted Castro driving without Pinson in Santa Barbara County, which is about 300 miles south of Vallejo. The gold Saturn sedan was spotted on a freeway near San Francisco Bay, and authorities also were searching the water’s edge. Rose Pinson, the missing girl’s older sister, said she had heard Castro’s name but had never met him and described him as an acquaintance, according to the Vallejo Times-Herald.
Pearl Pinson is a 15-year- old white female, 5-feet-3-inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with brown hair that has traces of green dye and green eyes, last seen wearing a gray sweater, black leggings, and a black and turquoise backpack.
Castillo said the phone belonged to Pearl Pinson, who they believe may be injured.
Authorities say Castro and the missing girl knew each other but believe she was taken unwillingly. “She’s always happy, she loves to laugh, loves to ride her long skateboard”. He briefly barricaded himself there, but a woman inside was able to escape safely.
Blood and Pearl Pinson’s cellphone were found on the pedestrian overpass where she was taken Wednesday.
When the deputies pursued the auto, the driver shot at them, stopped, got out and then fled into a different vehicle at a mobile home park in the town of Solvang, Ferrara said.
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SOLVANG, Calif. (AP) – Authorities were searching across a wide area in California for a teenage girl with hopes of finding her alive after the man suspected of abducting her was killed in a shootout with deputies.
