Sep 7, 2009 4:17 pm US/Pacific
Hassani Campbell Search Organizers Holding Vigil
OAKLAND (BCN) ―
Event organizers who led a civilian search in Fremont this weekend for missing 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell are holding a vigil for him in Oakland Monday evening.
More than 100 civilian volunteers, including the San Jose Search and Rescue Team and the Newark Community Emergency Response Team, searched Lake Elizabeth Central Park in Fremont, according to event organizer Sherri-Lyn Miller.
Hasanni was reported missing from the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store parking lot in the 6000 block of Rockridge Avenue in Oakland on Aug. 10 at 4:15 p.m. His foster father, Louis Ross, was the last person to see him, according to authorities.
The case is now being treated as a homicide instead of a missing person case, so the civilian searchers said they were relieved not to find Hasanni's body at Lake Elizabeth.
"We didn't find Hasanni here and that is good news for us," Miller said. "Now we can go to Oakland and focus on the area where it was reported he disappeared."
Miller added that the search party's main goal was to eliminate Lake Elizabeth as a site where Hasanni could be. She said there will be a vigil for Hasanni every Monday night until he is found, starting Monday night.
The vigils will be held at 6:30 p.m. at College Avenue Presbyterian Church, located at 5951 College Ave. in Oakland's Rockridge area.
(© CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Bay City News contributed to this report.)
CBS 5 CrimeWatch
Click to enlarge
Stumble It!
Comments