Chicago police do not believe the disappearance of a UIC student who has been missing nearly two weeks was a crime, but say they are still searching for 18-year-old Shalyha Ahmad.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police do not believe the disappearance of a UIC student who has been missing nearly two weeks was a crime, but say they are still searching for 18-year-old Shalyha Ahmad.
Ahmad is a freshman at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and friends said they last saw her on campus on Dec. 14, but no one has seen or heard from her since then.
Ahmad’s family has said she took a Blue Line train from Jefferson Park to campus on Dec. 14, and they planned to pick her up at UIC Student Center East, but she never showed.
Police on Wednesday confirmed detectives are investigating, but did not send out a missing person alert. Police said before they can send out an alert they have to confirm a timeline of when that person went missing, conduct interviews, and determine how vulnerable the missing person might be.
