Missing in Harris County Day: Families share heartbreaking stories of loved ones yet to be found

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — On Saturday, the Texas Middle for the Lacking hosted its Lacking in Harris County Day.

KHOU 11’s Zack Tawatari is sharing the heartbreaking tales of a number of households whose family members have but to be discovered.

Folks like Victoria Acosta are desperately trying to find solutions.

Household coping with two tragedies brings consideration to Lacking in Harris County Day

“My brother Mariano Funes, he is been lacking since December 31, 2020,” she mentioned. “We have been supposed to satisfy one another for New 12 months’s.”

Acosta mentioned Mariano had even purchased fireworks for the household, however as a substitute she bought a cellphone name.

“From his, his girlfriend round 9, 9:30, saying that my brother had talked to her and that he was in peril,” mentioned Acosta. “He instructed her that somebody was going to kill him.”

“He’s been lacking since.”

Acosta is not the one particular person in search of solutions at Lacking in Harris County Day. Crystal Lopez remains to be trying to find her son, Jonathon Giorgianni, who went lacking 5 months in the past.

“He had met a lady that lived out in Southeast Houston and so he went to go go to her on New 12 months’s and was there for a pair weeks along with her after which nothing after that,” she mentioned. “Simply no contact with anybody. Nobody appears to know the place he’s at or the place he may probably be.”

Giorgianni has been lacking since January 13, 2022.

“Nothing on social media. I’ve been in a position to entry his Instagram, Snapchat, e-mail.”

Based on the Texas Middle For The Lacking, in 2021, lacking individuals circumstances have been filed for over 10,000 folks in Harris County alone.

Melissa Rangel, a case supervisor on the Texas Middle for the Lacking, mentioned Lacking in Harris County Day provides these households a assist group.

“That’s what this brings to the desk the place you’ll have the ability to join with different households who perceive how you’re feeling,” she mentioned.

Seek for Felicia Johnson continues after practically a month

Just lately, 24-year-old Felicia Johnson’s disappearance from a Northwest Houston grownup leisure membership has made nationwide headlines. Albert Flores mentioned he’s an investigator for Quanell X who’s been working with the girl’s father.

“My huge query is, ‘Hey Houston, the place is Felicia Johnson?’” mentioned Flores. “Doesn’t look good for our metropolis when somebody visits our metropolis and comes up lacking.”

If you’re lacking somebody you like, the Texas Middle for the Lacking mentioned step one it is best to take is to file a lacking individuals report. They encourage everybody to name and check-in with their family members each time they’ll.