UPDATE: Missing Midvale girl found over the weekend

Trevor Myers
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UPDATE 4/21 2:27 P.M. — On April 21, the aunt of the girl who went missing on Friday reported that the girl had been found.

ORIGINAL STORY: ‘She is loved’: Family of missing Midvale girl shares message for her

MIDVALE, Utah (ABC4) — The family of Aaliyah — the 13-year-old girl who was missing out of Midvale since Friday — spoke out and had a message for her.

“I want her personally to know that she is loved and that we are wanting to welcome her home,” Brigetta Uta’i, Aaliyah’s aunt, told ABC4.com.

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Brigetta said the last time the family was in contact with Aaliyah was around 9:30 a.m. on Friday, when she was dropped off at school in Sandy.

Less than 30 minutes later, Brigetta said security cameras at the school captured Aaliyah leaving the campus and crossing the street.

“For her to just fall off the face of the earth is just not normal,” Brigetta said.

Brigetta said none of the neighbors’ cameras picked up Aaliyah, but she was last seen right before 1 p.m., walking past her grandma’s house. Brigetta said there is no evidence of Aaliyah entering the home.

“There’s so many dead-ends and so many unknowns,” Brigetta said. “It’s just not fair to be so unaware of what’s going on with her right now.”

Brigetta said the family learned through Aaliyah’s friends that another person may have been involved, but Brigetta pointed out that that has not yet been confirmed. Brigetta also said Aaliyah tends to be a homebody, but gets along with a lot of people.

The family doesn’t know if a second person was involved by vehicle, and said Aaliyah’s mother has reached out to the Utah Transit Authority to see if Aaliyah had been seen on any of their cameras.

Brigetta said Aaliyah was in “very high, good spirits” a couple days ago and even wished Brigetta a happy birthday. For Aaliyah to be off-the-grid for so long is “unusual,” Brigetta said.

“First and foremost, the only priority we really care about is that she’s safe,” Brigetta said. “That she knows she’s welcome to come home.”

Aaliyah is described as being bubbly and family-oriented, and Brigetta said that her family just wants to know that she is safe and they want her home.

“We just truly just wanna know that she’s OK,” Brigetta said.

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