Police are continuing their search for a 23-year-old Sacramento woman who was last seen in Los Angeles and whose phone was found at Los Angeles International Airport.
Noelle Lynch, 23, was last seen leaving an apartment building in the 900 block of East Redondo Boulevard in Englewood on April 3 around 5 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. She is described as being 5 feet 8 inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes, and weighing about 125 pounds.
Lynch is a student at Sacramento State University, but she drove to Los Angeles on April 1 “in a difficult state of mind,” her father told news outlet SF Gate. The family did not know where to go when she left their home in the Sacramento area and appeared upset, but the next day she was involved in a car accident in Los Angeles, her father, Mark Lynch, said. Her car was totaled.
The family had booked Lynch a hotel room near Los Angeles Airport and her mother was about to drive to Los Angeles to get her. Noelle spoke to her mother on a stranger's phone on April 3 and was “mostly inconsequential,” Mark Lynch told SF Gate. That was the last her family heard from Lynch.
She was last seen walking away from the apartment building in Inglewood and did not have anything with her, police said. But her mother later found her belongings, including a backpack, in the same building. Police said Lynch “may not be able to identify herself.”
Lynch was last seen wearing a dark T-shirt, green sweatpants with a military logo, and white sneakers. Her family said they found her phone at the Southwest Arilines ticket office at Los Angeles International Airport, but were unsure if she had boarded a flight.
