Family missing woman who has been found dead wants to answer after LMPD has not published a public warning

Louisville, Ky. (Wave) – The family of a woman was shot near the neighborhood of Buechel on Wednesday, in which the report protocol questioned the missing person of the LMPD.

Before her body was found, the 49-year-old Latasha White was no longer heard for 10 days.

According to the LMPD, the information that they received did not meet the criteria for public warning. The police saw no indication of a fight in their house. Her family gave no information that pointed out that she was in the immediate danger of what would have increased alarm status. “

LMPD provided a timeline of her investigation to disappear white. This timeline is as follows:

• April 30 – Ms. White's employer requested a LMPD welfare examination when she did not report on work. An official answered Ms. White's Residenz and there was no answer. There were no signs of a bad game.
• May 1st – The family of White submitted a report on missing people at LMPD.
• May 2 – The report was assigned to a detective for missing persons for the investigation. The detective contacted the family and collected further information. At that time, detectives learned that Ms. White removed her own cameras from her home while she was alone at home in the early morning of April 29.

White's family said Wave that she checked the video camera film material from White to remove the cameras, but only her arm has ever been within the framework. They also believe that part of the video had been deleted.

According to the report of the missing person, the sister of White, Jewell Neil, rated the interior of her house before submitting the report. She found that White's phone, wallet and car were still in the residence, but it was assumed that a wallet, cash and a weapon were missing. However, Neil said that a detective had never reached White's Home.

An LMPD spokesman told Wave: “Based on the information provided, LMPD had no legal authority to carry out further searches for her house, telephone or other personal property.”

The most alarming for the family, however, was the detail that White had missed “several days” work. They said Wave that she had never done that.

“The LMPD did not know me from Adam and Eve, but when I felt that I told them about my beloved people with whom I talk to 365, 24 hours a day, something is wrong. They should consider it,” said Neil. “Something is wrong.”

Neil said a detective suggested that her sister “would take me time”. Neil insists that her sister would have contacted someone, even if that was the case.

LMPD has never published enough information for the duration of White's disappearance to fulfill the criteria for a warning.

The von White family tried to distribute the word on social media with the posters of their own missing person, but they had the feeling that it did not get the kind of exposure associated with a law enforcement authority.

It is Wave's standard to wait for the law enforcement authorities to give an official public alarm or notification before the case of a missing person is published.

“There was a lot of outpour in the Facebook community, a lot of support,” said Theodore Spencer. “The support we received from them was great. We needed this support from LMPD.”

The family believes that LMPD did not pass them, and the tragic end of White's case has questioned whether the treatment is not others.

“Why do some cases have priority over others? Is the color? Or what is it in the community in which we are in ourselves?” Asked Spencer. “These questions have to be asked.”

“The administration says they are committed to the police reform,” added city councilor JP Liginger. “This is an example of the required police reform, which affects public security, which harms our community.”

Under the tree line along the Newport Road there was now a monument to White's honor. She was found by a stranger in the middle of the large, fluctuating weed of a neighborhood that her family said that she had no connection.

She will be remembered as a joyful and hardworking woman, who is popular as an aunt and sister of her family.

In an explanation, LMPD said: “We realize that this is a difficult time for the family of Latasha White. We will now concentrate our efforts to find the person or people who are responsible for their death and bring their family closure.”

Everyone with information is asked to call the anonymous tip line of LMPD under 574-LMPD or to submit a tip online.

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