Thursday, 7:36 PM
Boston police find missing 9-year-old girl
(Boston Police photo)
Neishalys Gonzalez smiled brightly in a recent picture.
By Globe Staff
Boston police called off a search tonight for a 9-year-old girl from Jamaica Plain after she returned home.
The girl's mother reported Neishalys Gonzalez missing about 1 p.m. today. She returned home about 7:30 p.m., after going to a sporting event without permission, police said.
A police spokesman said authorities had been checking all possible locations and activated emergency deployment units in the Centre Street area.
He said the units met in the Stop and Shop parking lot and fanned out through the neighborhood.
The mother told police the girl never showed up for school this morning.
Before she was found, police described the girl as 4-foot-11, 65 pounds, with black curly hair and brown eyes. They said she was wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans, and black shoes.
Police say she had last been spotted walking by her school, the John F. Kennedy School in Jamaica Plain this morning, but she never went inside. She was last seen walking with two other girls.
