UPDATE: CHILD AND DRIVER FOUND SAFE IN HOOD RIVER -- HAPPY ENDING
Posted: August 11th, 2010 10:23 PM
Photo/sound file: http://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2010-08/624/37452/cad_4600001.jpg (missing child)
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
Jim Strovink, Detective
Office of Public Information
12700 SE 82ND Avenue, Clackamas, Oregon 97015
News Release
Please refer to Clackamas County Sheriff's Case number 10-24766.
(Photo Attached – Courtesy of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office)
UPDATE 10:00 p.m.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is pleased to announce the missing 12-year-old has been located in Hood River, Oregon. She is reported to be safe and is expected to reunite with her family soon.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office reports an alert Hood River County Sheriff's Patrol Deputy spotted the described pick-up truck parked just off from I-84, on Cascade Avenue, in Hood River. This vehicle and occupants were located at 9:42 p.m. without incident.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is sending patrol personnel to this location with the expectation of taking the child into the care and temporary custody of the attending patrol personnel and reunites this child with her family.
Investigating Clackamas County Deputies will also interview with the driver of this vehicle and attempt to determine what occurred during the time the child was in the company of the female driver.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is grateful to the media for their prompt attention and valuable service broadcasting information concerning this missing child. Thank you!
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UPDATE: Additional investigative information obtained reveals this father, Kilunnun Chivoski, is the victim of hurricane Katrina, and has been supporting his family by working odd-jobs while moving his way across the country with not one, but three minor children. Chivoski has responsibility for his missing 12-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Shambaugh, and two additional minor children that are accompanying him on this difficult journey while seeking employment to support his family.
Investigators have learned Chivoski met Christine Johnston, about 4-days earlier this week while she was panhandling in the Lebanon / Corvallis City area. Johnston is reported to have invited Chivoski and his children to an unknown location in the Umatilla area to rest, eat and wash clothing. Investigators are presently engaged in contacting all possible residential addresses associated with Christine Johnston, in the eastern Oregon town of Umatilla.
A temporary Command Post has been set-up at the north station of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office to attend to this immediate effort dedicated to locating the missing child.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is also reporting the missing child, Elizabeth Danielle Shambaugh, 12, is 5'02" tall, 122 pounds, with blond hair, blue-green eyes and was wearing a camouflage colored tank top and blue jeans with knee holes. (Photo Attached)
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is attending to the need of a temporary shelter for the two additional children of the Chivoski family and there father.
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The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is seeking assistance from the media and the public with efforts to locate a vehicle that is allegedly transporting a 12-year-old girl – with a possible destination identified potentially as Umatilla, Oregon.
Preliminary information reveals a transient father identified as Kilunnun Chivoski, and his daughter Elizabeth Danielle Shambaugh, age 12, were traveling north to Portland in a caravan of one or more automobiles. At some point prior to arriving in the Portland area, a woman suspected of being Christine Eileen Johnston, 32, with her vehicle registered to an address in Umatilla, accepted the 12-year-old Christine in her vehicle to continue the ride to Portland. There is also some mention of these transient citizens meeting at a church south of Portland, earlier in their journey north.
At a predetermined meeting location in Clackamas County this afternoon, Kilununn Chivoski, who had momentarily become separated from the moving automobile, witnessed – disturbingly – his daughter pass by him in the truck as he was standing on the edge of the roadway. His daughter is described to have been extending her arms in the air with an concerned facial expression commonly associated with a statement of, "What the heck!", as the vehicle continued traveling down the road. Destination unknown!
The vehicle of interest to this investigation is described as:
• 1985, Ford, F-250, pick-up truck. With Oregon license plates XYQ-562. This is blue truck, with a white panel on the side, and the words "will work for food" inscribed on the white paneling of this truck. This truck also is described to be equipped with a white and silver colored camper shell, that may have a 'smiley face' affixed.
This pick-up truck is registered to Christine E. Johnston, 32, with a registered address in Umatilla, Oregon.
Investigators are concerned due to the fact the vehicle transporting the 12-year-old did not stop at the predetermined location as planned. Also, investigators learned this vehicle and the child were previously stopped by a police officer south of Portland earlier during their journey. On this occasion, the woman identified as Christine Johnston, is believed to have improperly declared the 12-year-old female in the vehicle as her own child. Investigators believe the child in the truck at the time of this described traffic stop was our missing 12-year-old, known as Elizabeth D. Shambaugh.(Photo Attached of Elizabeth Shambaugh)
Investigators are hopeful this may just be a case of a significant failure in communications, but are working on the side of caution in the event this 12-year-old may be in jeopardy.
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office investigators are asking if anyone knows the occupants of this described vehicle, or the location of the describe occupants, to please contact 911 and report this information immediately to law enforcement.
Please refer to Clackamas County Sheriff's Case number 10-24766 [END]
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