A 23-year-old woman who went missing in Inglewood has been found, authorities said Tuesday.
Noelle M. Lynch was last seen around 5 p.m. on April 3 walking from an apartment building in the 900 block of East Redondo Boulevard, near Florence Avenue and the Inglewood Park Cemetery, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Kellie Lynch, Noelle’s mother, expressed her gratitude in a social media post on Saturday to everyone involved in finding her daughter.
“I would like to extend our gratitude for all of your prayers for locating our daughter Noelle. Those prayers have been answered, and Noelle has reached out to us,” she wrote.
“Please, we ask that you respect our family’s privacy at this difficult time. And know that we will share updates with you when we can. Thank you for your love and support.”
Lynch is a student at Sacramento State whose cellphone was discovered at Los Angeles International Airport nearly two weeks ago.
Lynch’s father, Mark Lynch, told the San Francisco-based news website SFGate that his daughter was vulnerable and in a “difficult state of mind” when she disappeared after traveling from Sacramento to Southern California on April 1.
He said his daughter was upset when she left the house and that he and Kellie were unaware of Lynch’s destination.
“We didn’t know where she was going, and the next thing we knew, she was in an accident in Los Angeles at 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. Tuesday, April 2,” Mark Lynch told SFGate.
Lynch was not injured during the crash, but her vehicle was totaled.
SFGate reported that Kellie Lynch booked a hotel room for her daughter near Los Angeles International Airport before driving to Los Angeles to meet her daughter.
However, the younger Lynch was not at the hotel.
On April 3, around noon, she called her mother from a stranger’s phone, but the conversation was extremely brief and incoherent. It was the last time her parents heard from her.
It remains unclear why Lynch was at the apartment building.