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Kidnapped Navajo Girl Found Dead in New Mexico

  • This undated photo provided by the New Mexico State Police shows Ashlynne Mike.

    This undated photo provided by the New Mexico State Police shows Ashlynne Mike. | Photo: New Mexico State Police

Published 3 May 2016
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Ashlynne Mike and her 9-year-old brother were abducted after school on Monday near the community of San Juan, New Mexico. 

A 11-year-old native American girl kidnapped from the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico was found dead on Tuesday and the man suspected of abducting her is still at large, the FBI and Navajo Nation said.

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Ashlynne Mike and her 9-year-old brother were abducted after school on Monday near the community of San Juan, New Mexico, when a man driving a van offered them a ride.

The boy, Ian Mike, was found walking along a highway around 7:15 p.m. local time and taken to the police department in Shiprock, the largest town on the Navajo Nation. He reported that the man had taken his sister.

The boy told police the driver took them toward the Shiprock pinnacle—a rock hill that is a landmark on the Navajo Nation—where he hit a dead end and released the boy, telling him to go home, the Navajo Nation said. The girl's body was discovered less than 8 miles (12.8 kms) south of the pinnacle after an air and ground search, Fisher said.

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The suspect was described by the FBI as a light-skinned Navajo male in his late 30s with short dark hair and a tear-drop tattoo under his left eye. The suspect wore earrings in both ears, a long silver chain necklace, a gold watch, a black shirt and blue pants, it said.

"The sooner we get this person off the streets the better. Ashlynne's family deserves nothing less," Fisher told a news conference. "There was no reason for Ashlynne to have suffered this way."

Fisher called on the public to look for the suspect's van, which he said had sliding doors, a luggage rack and no hubcaps. The Navajo Nation said the maroon vehicle also had a broken front bumper.

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