Crime & Safety

Summit BOE Vice President: Daughter Not The Type to Run Away

15-year-old Alexis Stevenson has been missing for more than 24 hours.

The mother of the 15-year-old Summit teenager who has been missing for more than 24 hours says it isn't like her daughter to run away.

Alexis Stevenson, a freshman at  and daughter of Board of Education Vice President Michelle Stevenson and her husband Kenneth, was reported missing Monday morning after last being seen walking out of Summit High School around 7:45 am.

"We’re not sure about the circumstances. I don't know if she was meeting people," said Michelle Stevenson, by phone. "This is so out of character."

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Summit police say that they have no evidence to suggest the missing teen has been abducted.

"However we are taking this investigation very seriously," said Lt. Steven Zagorski of the Summit Police Department. "We are exhausting all means to try to find her."

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According to Zagorski, school officials notified police and Stevenson was officially reported missing by her parents shortly thereafter.

Stevenson was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt with an iron on picture of a girl, black boots and carrying a green and black backpack. A flier being circulated states Alexis is 5-foot-7, 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Michelle Stevenson said police have been working Tuesday to get subpoenas to access computers, phone records, Facebook and Skype accounts in an effort to help locate Alexis.

Zagorski said the police have reason to believe Alexis has a connection to New York City and they have been in communication with NJ Transit Police, the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit, the Port Authority Police and the New York City Police Department.

Michelle Stevenson said other high schoolers have said Alexis may have been talking about going to New York before she left the school Monday morning.

"She’s a model and an actress so she talks about New York a lot. She’s in there a lot," Stevenson said. "I wouldn’t be surprised."

Michelle Stevenson said the family and many community members will be hanging up fliers both locally and regionally, including in New York City, tonight.

Anyone with information as to her whereabouts are being asked to call the Summit Police at 908-273-0051.


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