Detroit, Michigan Ziya Turner 1

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Ziya Turner, 1-Year Old Detroit Girl, Missing

DETROIT (WWJ) –Ziya Turner, 1, is missing and police are asking for help in locating the missing girl from the city’s east side.

Police say the one-year old wandered away from her home in the Seven Mile and Conant road area in Detroit.

Police say an uncle was babysitting Ziya along with several other children and discovered her missing around 3:30 Friday afternoon.

It’s not clear what she is wearing, but anyone with information on the child should contact police.

Stay with WWJ as more information becomes available on this story.

detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/06/29/ziya-turner-1-year-old-detroit-girl-missing/

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17-month-old girl missing in Detroit

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Detroit Police are searching for a missing 17-month old girl who has been missing since around 4:00 p.m. Friday.

Ziya Turner was last seen in at a home on the 18000 block of Brinker on Detroit's east side. The home is in the area of 7 Mile and Conant.

www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/17-month-old-girl-missing-in-detroit

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17-Month Old Ziya Turner Found Dead Jun 30, 2012 8:28 a.m.

A sad turn of events in Detroit this morning when a 17-month old girl is found dead.

Little Ziya Turner was reported missing from a home in the 18-thousand block of Brinker around 3:30pm Friday afternoon. That's on Detroit's East side.

Police confirm that Ziya was discovered inside that home early this morning. A cadaver dog found the little girl's body.

A Medical Examiner will now determine her exact cause of death.

We are told several people are being interviewed by police.

No arrests have been made so far.

wap.myfoxdetroit.com/w/main/story/65982157/

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One-year-old Detroit girl found dead; one person in custody

Detroit girl went missing from home in 18000 block of Brinker Street

Published On: Jun 29 2012 09:10:51 PM EDT
Updated On: Jun 30 2012 07:52:36 AM EDT


Police sources tell Local 4's Chauncy Glover one-year-old Ziya Turner was found dead by detectives Saturday morning in the closet of a family members home.

Sources confirm the home Ziya's body was found in is on Brinker Street on Detroit's east side.

Local 4 is told at least 10 to 12 people live in this home.

Police confirm one person is in custody.

Ziya Turner went missing Friday evening. She was last seen alive at her grandmother's house in the 18000 block of Brinker Street.

Family members say Ziya was being watched by family members while her mother underwent surgery at a hospital. The girl somehow got out of the house and went missing.

The last time anyone recalls seeing her is 3:30 p.m. Friday.

Detroit police, with K9s, searched the area near 7 Mile Road and Conant Street. Officers went house to house and broke down the door to a nearby home to make sure Ziya was not inside.

Her mother, Erika James, does not believe she just wandered off.

"My baby don't go to nobody. Nobody at all," said James. "I just wish whoever has my baby would bring her back. Just bring her back."

www.clickondetroit.com/news/news/One-year-old-Detroit-girl-found-dead-one-person-in-custody/-/4714498/15356504/-/am5svgz/-/index.html

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Tragedy as police launch frantic search for missing girl, one, before she is found dead hours later under LAUNDRY in chaotic home

PUBLISHED: 20:39 EST, 30 June 2012 | UPDATED: 02:06 EST, 1 July 2012

A search for a missing 17-month-old girl ended tragically Saturday morning after her body was recovered beneath a toppled pile of laundry inside her grandmother's closet.

The family of little Zyia Turner are calling her death an accident after cadaver dogs unearthed her body hours after an Amber Alert was issued throughout their Detroit community on Friday afternoon.

'We were hoping, just hoping someone had took her,' Ziya’s grandmother Bridget Elam told WXYZ behind tears.

'We never thought she was in the house right up under our nose. It didn’t cross our minds.'

It was in a dishevelled bedroom of Ms Elam’s home, seen on camera packed with thrown clothes and other variously sprawled items, that her granddaughter was found by police.

Her uncle watching her at the time, as well as several other children, told police he suspected she had wandered away.

Ms Elam says it was 3.46pm when she got the phone call from her son, whose name has not been released, asking if she knew where Zyia was.

'What do you mean you can't find her?' Ms Elam recalled asking to the Detroit Free Press.

The uncle told police he temporarily left the children alone to go to his bedroom before returning to find Zyia missing.

He reported the other children saying they hadn’t seen where she could have gone.

'The last I saw her, she was sitting on the dining room floor eating cereal. That's when everything went to a panic,' Ms Elam recalled.

The girl's father, 25-year-old Emmanuel Turner, said he rushed straight to the house to help their search efforts.

Worried the girl had left the property, the family made and distributed fliers throughout their neighbourhood after calling police and issuing an Amber Alert.

Receiving the tragic news early Saturday morning, for Ms Elam, the hardest part she says is now knowing that the toddler was in her house the entire time.

'My grandkids... they’re blaming themselves, like we didn’t search the area,' she told WXYZ. 'But you can’t put that on you. It was a bad accident. It was a very bad accident that we just have to deal with.'

While police said the family had been fully cooperating in the investigation the girl's uncle has been placed under arrest.

The child's cause of death has not been released while an autopsy has been completed while pending a toxicology screening.

The case remains under investigation and Detroit police homicide investigators are still questioning those involved.

The youngest of three, Zyia had a two and six-year-old brother.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167126/Tragedy-missing-1-year-old-Zyia-Turner-buried-beneath-toppled-laundry-grandmothers-closet.html