Crime & Safety
Silver Alert: Avon Resident Shanequa-Lyn Rock, 16, Reported Missing
Please contact the Avon Police Department if you have information on her whereabouts.
Avon police announced Saturday afternoon that a Silver Alert has been issued for a missing Avon 16-year-old.
Shanequa-Lyn Rock was "discovered missing" around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, police said in a press release.
According to police, she used her ATM card in West Hartford around 3:28 a.m.
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Rock, a white female, is about 5' 3" and weights 210 pounds. Police said she has blue eyes, a light complexion and short, red or auburn hair. She might be wearing a black jacket and black/white boots and carrying a green duffel bag, police said.
The 16-year-old "left the residence without her necessary medication," the release stated.
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Avon police are asking anyone with information on her whereabouts to call the department at the routine police dispatch number, 860-409-4200.
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