A 24 year old Houston woman went missing after she went to a club in search of a job.
Felicia Marie Johnson walked in to the Cover Girls Night Club looking for work on April 15th. While waiting for her Uber to pick her that was late, an unidentified customer of the club offered her a ride. She has not been heard from since.
Uber was taking too long to really get here, so a gentleman here at the club offered to give her a ride to where she needed to go,” community activist Quanell X said Wednesday at a news conference. “Felicia has not been seen since. No cell phone activity. No credit card activity. No social media activity. She has absolutely just vanished off the face of the earth.”
Unfortunately, Felicia’s bloody cell phone was found 5 miles away from where she was last seen. Felicia’s father Kevin, who flew to Houston from California to appear with X, said the family hired a private investigator that found the blood-covered phone. Houston police told ABC13 that detectives are “actively investigating.” Nonprofit search-and-rescue group Texas EquuSearch is also on the case.
X said he wanted the Houston PD to put as many resources into finding Johnson, who is Black, as it does when white women goes missing. By Thursday, X was feeling cautiously optimistic.
“HPD is finally taking the case serious now,” X told The Daily Beast in an interview. “Texas EquuSearch is on the ground also trying to follow every lead, trying to find a body or something that belongs to her. And the FBI has gotten involved as of today. So things are happening.”
“It’s a tragedy that you have been caught up in this net of whatever they got going on out here, but we’re working very, very hard to get you back and I love you. Everybody in the family loves you and I just want you to know, stay strong and we’re coming for you.”
“I’m trying to hold myself together and stay strong for the family and for you,” said Kevin in a message to his daughter. “And I won’t rest for a day in my life until I have you back.”
According to X, Johnson’s disappearance is part of “an epidemic in Houston, with Black girls going missing and coming up murdered.”
“This is the fifth Black girl to come up missing, quote-unquote, ‘involved in the sex industry,’” he said. “The previous four were all found murdered—and this is all in the past five months.” X said he wants Johnson to “know the community is looking for you,” and that he and the others are “turning over every stone. We’ll leave no door unlocked or unopened until we find where you are.”
Felicia’s father sent this message to anyone that may have been involved in Felicia’s disappearance, “Just come forward, you don’t want to get caught up in the net when the authorities do catch these people.”
Felicia Johnson is 5’4”, 150 lbs., with brown eyes and long black curly (sometimes straight) hair. She has a tattoo of a rose and butterfly on her thigh. It is unknown what she was wearing at the time of her disappearance. Anyone with information about Felicia is asked to contact Houston Police Department at (832) 394-1840 or Texas EquuSearch at (281) 309-9500.
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