Help Needed to Locate Missing, Endangered Teen

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is asking area residents to keep their eyes open for a 17-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Sunday.

According to the sheriff’s office, Mersadie Lee Lusk got into an argument with her aunt around 1 a.m. and left her home on Beechberry Drive wearing only a T-shirt and underwear. She hasn’t been seen since.

Lusk, an email to media from the agency stated, does not have a cellphone and was not wearing any shoes. She also left her glasses at home.

“She has run away in the past, but normally returns home within a day or two,” the sheriff’s office noted in the email.

Lusk is 5 feet tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black American flag skull T-shirt.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 813-247-8200.

Photo courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

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