Callie Jones Missing NY 1/6/04

[Juliana]

http://www.nbc17.com/news/2757794/detail.html

[WasBlind]

Kelly Jolkowski has made a printable flyer, which can be found here

http://members.cox.net/kelly_projectjason/index_files/page0003.htm

Please help us find Callie and bring her home, again, and thanks!

[dannyodie]

is there any word that the police have talked to the bus driver to see if he remembers seeing anyone that may have gotten off at the same bus stop she did, or maybe someone that may have been near it when she got to where she was going? sure hope this child comes home safetly. maybe the bus was followed from point " A " to point " B " by someone that may have been watching her before she got on the bus?... :waitasec:

[Love_Mama]

Jan 13, 2004 : 10:51 pm ET
This happened yesterday....same school I would guess......that Halle went to.
Interesting.....hum!!!!!!! There's more of the story....so click on link.

http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-435046.html
DURHAM -- A shooting Monday that left three bullet holes in a DATA bus and two 15-year-olds under arrest began as a gang-related argument at Lakeview School, Durham's alternative school for suspended students, officials said Tuesday.

Also Tuesday, police said that one of the alleged shooters had fired his weapon from inside the bus. Police previously had said that all the shots were fired outside the bus, shortly after it stopped at Alston Avenue and Dowd Street around 10:15 a.m.

The shooting was the fourth in about nine months along DATA's Route 9, which runs through east Durham to Durham Regional Hospital.

More details about the incident emerged on Tuesday, including that the bus was carrying rival gang members, that Lakeview students routinely use Route 9, and that the bus security cameras that should have recorded Monday's incident malfunctioned.

Lakeview Principal Elton O'Neal said the two 15-year-olds involved in the shootout -- now being held at the Durham County Youth Home -- had been suspended from Lakeview for a gang-related argument.

O'Neal added that students typically are suspended only after two incidents in one day. However, when an incident is gang-related, a 10-day suspension is automatic, he said, adding that he could not discuss the details because of student confidentiality laws.

The pair got on the bus Monday at the downtown terminal on Morgan Street, police said Tuesday. One of the teens then pulled the cord to exit the bus at Alston Avenue and Dowd Street, where he turned and shouted obscenities at the other.

The first teen pulled out a gun and fired shots through the bus window at the second teen, police said. The second teen then pulled out his gun, which jammed and failed to fire.

After recocking the gun, the second teen managed to fire a single shot from inside the bus, police said Tuesday.

[Hammerized]

and that the bus security cameras that should have recorded Monday's incident malfunctioned. I wonder if the bus Callie boarded also had "malfunctioning" cameras?

[dannyodie]

these buses from what I gather are city buses?? I don't know if the police there are posted in schools during school hours like they do in tennessee. I have always thought that it would be a good Idea for those buses such as the ones in durham being city buses maybe a assigned officer could ride the bus to keep order if that is what it takes, it is sad that kids can't go to school and have to worry about gangs and all that mess. the news article about the teens on the bus as being rival gang members, maybe there could be a link to callie jones in that bunch of thugs.. yea, and I wonder also if the camera on the bus that callie rode had malfunctioning cameras, sounds too me that there was more human malfunction going on in the bus from monday... than anything else...

[Kelly]

Unfortunately, the bus Callie was on had no cameras. many of them do, but this one did not.

Kelly

[Love_Mama]

Here's the lastest news I could find.
xxxxxxoooo
mama sending prayers!
Can you believe the number of runaway children in N.C. That's a small state!


Parents Take Unusual Approach To Finding Missing Daughter
Because Girl Considered Runaway, Family Must Rely On Its Own Resources To Find Her

POSTED: 6:53 p.m. EST January 23, 2004
UPDATED: 8:08 p.m. EST January 23, 2004

DURHAM, N.C. -- Last year in North Carolina, nearly 8,000 children ran away from home. Rarely does the public hear about any of them. Statistics show that many return within a few days.

The family of Callie Jones has resorted to running an ad in the newspaper because she is considered a runaway.

But for the parents of runaways who do not return, the wait is not just heartwrenching. It also is frustrating.

It has been more than two weeks since 15-year-old Callie Jones left home. She still has not returned.

"It's been extremely difficult," said her stepmother, Rebecca Jones. "You don't know if she's O.K., out in the cold."

The high-school freshman was supposed to board a school bus but never did. Instead, she was last seen getting on a Durham city bus along Dearborne Avenue.

Police believe she ran away.

When police suspect a child has been abducted or is in danger, they immediately call the media to get the word out. But it is different with runaways.

With hundreds of children leaving on their own everyday, the press cannot accommodate the many parents in anguish over their missing child. So, as investigators work the case, families like the Jones' are left trying to tell their story.

Callie's parents have posted flyers, alerted friends and looked at local hotels. And in an unusual approach, her father's employer placed an ad in local papers.

The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons called it a savvy move. That's because their most effective resources for finding missing children aren't available for runaways.

Valuable tools like the Amber Alert are not activated.

"You negate the power of it if you overuse it, so it is reserved for the most critical cases and in cases where law enforcement thinks there is an immediate threat," said Perry Stewart, of the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons.

Callie's parents pray the ad works.

"We just hope any way we can get the word out that somebody will come forward and let us know how she is, that she's all right," Warren Jones said. "We want her back."

[dannyodie]

this child could be a runaway, but most from what I have heard and read is that a lot of them become homesick in some way and at least make a phone call or something.. I don't understand why the police want to consider her a runaway.. whether she is or not the fact is a child is out there outside the safe circle of family and friends with really nothing that would point in that direction for sure.. the fact that she got on a city bus does not really mean she had planned to take off, but instead may have had other reasons for doing so. if police keep considering her a runaway that is a good reason for them to relax and not have to worry about it as much as if she was considered missing and endangered.. I don't really see the difference here. she is missing from her family and that is all that matters. too bad that the family has to rely on there own means to do a task that is almost impossible to do with a small number of resources. I really wonder how much more the local police work on missing cases rather than runaway cases, after all if a person is going to runaway there should be as much consern as to her overall safety either way. someone, maybe even someone that knows the family maybe talked her into meeting someplace that day, maybe thats why she is missing.. this is all just my opinion and I just felt the need to express the way I feel about the way police tend to lean when it comes to the difference of runaway and missing.. too many clowns not enough circuses.. :twocents:

[Love_Mama]

if police keep considering her a runaway that is a good reason for them to relax and not have to worry about it as much as if she was considered missing and endangered.. I don't really see the difference here. she is missing from her family and that is all that matters.

I just felt the need to express the way I feel about the way police tend to lean when it comes to the difference of runaway and missing.. too many clowns not enough circuses.. :twocents:

dannyodie.....I agree. In CA, It's illegal for a minor to buy cigarettes, booze......even be a truant from school......but if they decide to run away they almost seem to not care! Doesn't make sense. We even have police here checking to see why kids aren't in school and many time's will make a truant arrest if they see them in the neighborhood when they should be in school. IF it became illegal to run away.....then maybe the police would get more involved. I think the Government.....local or federal should stay out of a lot of things but I do think they should be there when our children are missing, whether run away's or not This is when a family really need's the help of the police!

xxxxxxxoo
mama

[Kelly]

Callie was found safe today! See a news brief here: http://www.wral.com/news/2804186/detail.html

Kelly

[WasBlind]

WOW, what a wonderful way to start the day. Thanks so much for the update, Kelly, and for all the work you did for Callie and her family.

YEY *doing my dance of joy*

We worship such a merciful God. All glory to Him for returning this girl safely to her family.

Love in Christ, Lanie

[dannyodie]

this is truely a blessed way to begin a new day, Now I know that my prayers are answered. I know the parents are so releived of her coming home. :dance:

[mindys]

Such great news. May they all be able to heal and their family be even better than before.

[WindChime]

Kids just don't realize what it does to their parents when they run away, I consider them being selfish to put a parent through all the fear not knowing what happend to their child I'm so thankful that she was found and safe.

[mindys]

Kids just don't realize what it does to their parents when they run away, I consider them being selfish to put a parent through all the fear not knowing what happend to their child I'm so thankful that she was found and safe.My brother ran away at 18 in the 70's, I was 9. I'll never forget my Dad and Grandfather and Uncle's and my Dad's police buddies going in and out of our home at all hour's to search. My Dad, whom was a big John Wayne of a man, crying, his soul hurting. It changed all of us, it changed ME. We found my oldest brother day's later when he was JUST about to board a plane at the International Airport to go to basic training in the Navy. The enlisting agent had helped him hide out at his house for four days.

[WasBlind]

Still praying for Callie and her family.

Thanks, Kelly, for all you have done for this family and all the families.