By Gus Saltonstall
An Upper West Side woman has been missing for nearly 20 days, police announced on Monday morning.
Icea Kiser, 29, was last seen leaving her apartment building at 840 Columbus Avenue, near West 101st Street, at 3 a.m. on June 26, police said.
She is 5 feet 7 inches tall, 140 pounds, with dark eyes and black hair, NYPD said. She was last seen wearing a pink hooded sweatshirt and a blue skirt, police added.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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Why did it take nearly three weeks for the NYPD to share this with the neighborhood? I recall asking the same question after a young woman went missing from the West 70s last year…luckily, she was found safe. Hoping Icea is found soon, too.
I don’t want to know about every missing person
That’s charming.
Understandable, but I think putting it out there could help in case someone who reads the WSR sees her. Humanity, what a concept!
If you’re grown adult without much family nearby, or without regular communication with them, and maybe unemployed, self-employed, or in less visible role, etc,, how long do you think it would take for someone to even notice that you’re “missing”? How long until they stop presuming that you left on vacation or to visit a boyfriend, etc.? And how long after that would it take for a police report to be filed, for police to do even the most preliminary search/investigation, etc.?
This also applies to non sheltered homeless who don’t have phones.
This. My neighbir was dead for quite a few days before it became obvious we needed to send the police in.
The point is that there’s always a discrepancy between the time someone is reported missing and the time the police release the info to the public.
We don’t know if there is a discrepancy though. It could be a neighbor was like, “I haven’t seen her for 3 weeks. I better call the cops.” Or it could be that she had been missing a week, neighbors called the cops, and and trh cops didn’t reveal the info for awhile. We don’t know what happeend
Hey Sal, then don’t read the article. You saw the headline so, if it’s not of interest to you, don’t bother reading it and don’t take up your time commenting on it. But someone out there might have seen her and may be able to help. That’s how the neighborhood assists the police when possible.