The boyfriend of an Alabama woman who went missing after she called 911 to report she’d stopped to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of a busy highway said Sunday that she fought for her life for the two days she was gone.
Thomar Latrell Simmons took to Facebook to share a number of photos and videos of himself and Carlethia “Carlee” Russell before she disappeared from the side of Interstate 459 in Hoover, Alabama, Thursday night after leaving work and heading to buy food.
Russell reportedly was reunited with her family and friends Saturday night after she walked up to her parents’ house and knocked on the door.
Her disappearance made headlines and flooded social media within the two days she was missing, but now the woman’s boyfriend and parents are asking for privacy while she recovers from the ordeal.
“All I asked from everyone right now is to be respectful of Carlee’s situation. She was literally fighting for her life for 48 hours, so until she’s physically & mentally stable again she is not able to give any updates or whereabouts on her kidnapper at this very moment,” Simmons wrote on Facebook Sunday.
Hoover police say they’re working to “fill in the gaps” in what happened to Russell the two days she was gone. She gave a statement to police, according to reports. The details of that statement are a part of the ongoing investigation.
“We deal in facts,’’ Hoover police Chief Nick Derzis said Sunday. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s our obligation as police to put it all together.”
The events leading up to her return involve a 911 call she made to report a toddler walking alone on the side of the highway. Russell’s brother’s girlfriend was on the phone with her after the call and heard screaming and shuffling before the line went silent. Russell’s family called out to her repeatedly on the line, but she was unresponsive, they said. They contacted authorities.
The police…
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