Family Hunts For Mom Who Disappeared In Flatbush Last Week

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Concerned family members are patrolling the streets of Brooklyn hoping to find a missing mom who hasn't been seen in seven days.

Zussanka Knight, 45, disappeared from her parent's home on Schenectady Avenue near Avenue D at about 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 19, according to police and her brother Whit McKnight.

"I'm doing the best that I can," said McKnight, a 40-year-old school principal who travelled from Atlanta to find his missing sister. "But it never feels like enough."

McKnight has spent the past week looking for any clue that might lead him toward his sister, the mother of an 18-year-old son and 24-year-old daughter who works for the IRS in Georgia, he said.

Knight, who has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, took a medical leave of absence last summer and has since been living with her parents in Brooklyn, said McKnight.

"My sister is very eloquent and very intelligent," he said. "But she has had setbacks and mental health challenges."

Knight has been asking local small business owners to let him watch surveillance footage in hopes of tracing his sister, and has already had some success.

Surveillance footage taken near Avenue D and Schenectady Avenue shows McKnight in a dark peacoat, blue baseball hat, and gray glasses heading toward Utica Avenue, according to McKnight and police.

She was also carrying a pink and red coat bag and a large umbrella with a hook handle, McKnight said.

"It looked like she bundled up," said McKnight, whose sister disappeared days before a record-breaking cold front hit New York City.

Knight's daughter has also traveled up from Atlanta to help police find her missing mom, whom police describe as having brown eyes, brown hair, standing 5-foot 7-inches, weighing about 150 pounds.

McKnight said anyone who spotted his sister should not approach her, but call 911 or 67th precinct detective Hinton Kelly at (718) 287-3249.

"I'm doing a lot of the things I thought detectives would do," said McKnight. "I'm doing as much as I can to keep the ball moving."

Update: Zussanka Knight and her brother were reunited on Monday, one week after she disappeared, McKnight told Patch.

Photo courtesy of the NYPD