City of Gahanna issued the following announcement on Mar 7.
The search for Ali Shegow, age 17, continued through this past weekend involving trained Search and Rescue (SAR) teams, police officers, fire service personnel, family and community members. Investigators have followed leads in possible sightings of Ali over the last two weeks. None of these leads have resulted in any new or credible information being developed in this case. Adverse weather, quickly changing water levels, large amounts of debris above and below the water’s surface, hazardous conditions along the creek’s banks and other factors hamper the efforts of search teams.
Ali’s disappearance in the late evening of Monday, February 21 has been covered several times by all of the local television news broadcasts in Central Ohio. Ali has been entered as a missing person in nationwide law enforcement databases in the event of being located by any agency in the country. We continue to provide information to Ali’s family, friends and Somali community leaders. All operations are closely coordinated between the Gahanna Division of Police, Mifflin Township Fire Department , Columbus Division of Fire, Columbus Division of Police and many outside first responder agencies.
Search efforts will continue to scale up or down as information is developed and/or environmental conditions permit. Any immediate updates to this incident will be provided to the public and available on Division’s social media platforms.
~ Chief Jeffrey Spence – Gahanna Division of Police
Original source can be found here.
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