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A Houston woman has vanished while leaving a local strip club — and now her family fears the worst after her phone was discovered in a park covered in blood, authorities said.
Felicia Johnson, 24, was last seen at the Cover Girls Night Club on West Little York Road in Houston on the night of April 15 when she accepted a ride from an unknown man, community activist Quanell X said Sunday.
“We firmly believe that someone has taken her against her will and we believe that this sister should be treated with the highest priority with law enforcement,” the head of the New Black Panther Nation in Houston said at a vigil, KHOU reported.
Quanell X said Johnson got into the man’s car because her Uber ride was running late.
“We know something bad happened to this sister. She has not called a member of her family, not used her credit cards didn’t return back to the hotel where she was staying,” said the activist.
Johnson, who lives in California, had traveled to Houston earlier this month to celebrate her birthday and to earn some extra money.
According to her family, Johnson, who was described as a model, had applied for a job as a dancer at the Cover Girls gentlemen’s club but was turned down.
After not hearing from Johnson after her night out on April 15, her worried family members hired a private investigator, who found her bloodied cellphone along Eldridge Parkway near Bear Creek Park, which is located about 5 miles away from the club.
Last Tuesday, the volunteer equestrian search group Texas EquuSearch spent hours scouring the area where Johnson’s phone was located. Detectives from the Houston Police Department were also on hand.
Speaking at the vigil in the park Sunday, Johnson’s father, Kevin Johnson addressed his missing daughter directly and vowed to bring her back.
“Baby, Daddy is here for you,” he said. “I’m not leaving until we find you. I’m standing strong for you every day and it gets harder. I’m not going to lie, but every day I’m finding more strength to keep going.”
Kevin Johnson described her daughter as a “sweet person” and an aspiring model.
“She wanted to be a dancer, model, anything had to do with glamour, that’s basically who she was. Who she is,” he added.
Meanwhile, Quanell X called on the Houston police to treat cases involving black missing women as seriously as those involving white women.
“This is the fourth [case] I’ve dealt with in six months of a missing African American female,” Quanell X said. “And in every one of those cases of a missing African American female, HPD has dragged its feet and they did not do anything until I began to go public.”
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