Missing Essex County Girl Didn’t Get On School Bus: Police

EAST ORANGE, NJ — Authorities are asking for the public’s help finding an 11-year-old girl in Essex County. She was reported missing after she didn’t get on the bus for school, police said.

Angel Riley Izraael, 11, of East Orange, was last seen at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6 walking on Telford Avenue in Newark towards South Orange Avenue, according to a joint statement from the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit and the East Orange Police Department.

Authorities described Izraael as a black female, 5 feet 3 inches and 130 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and carrying a grey backpack. She wears glasses and does not have any distinguishing marks, police said (see below photo).

“[Izraael] is asthmatic and may be in-need of medical assistance,” police stated.

Anyone with information regarding Izraael’s whereabouts can contact the East Orange Police Department Criminal Investigations Bureau at 973-266-5000.

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Photo: NJ State Police