Body of missing Richland County teen girl found, sheriff says. Suspect sought Noah Feit, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Apr. 29 The search for a missing teenager ended when her body was discovered early Thursday morning, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
Now, two other teenagers are facing kidnapping and, probably, murder charges, the sheriff said. One has been arrested, and the community is being asked to help find the other.
Sanaa (pronounced sa-ni-ya) Amenhotep, 15, was found in woods near Interstate 20, Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said. I told her parents we would bring her home. Unfortunately it wasn t the way we hoped and prayed to bring her, Lott said at a news conference.
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15-year-old missing for more than 3 weeks found dead in SC Sanaa Amenhotep was just 15 years old and a freshman at Richland Northeast High School. (Source: Family photo) By WIS News 10 Staff | April 29, 2021 at 9:42 AM EDT - Updated April 30 at 2:12 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Deputies said a Columbia teenager who was missing for more than three weeks was found dead Wednesday night in Lexington County.
Sanaa Amenhotep, who was just 15 years old, was last seen April 5 when she left her house in northeast Columbia with another teen girl and two males. Her body was found off of Rish Drive in Lexington County. (Source: WIS TV)
Missing daughter of N.J. anti-violence activist was kidnapped, killed, sheriff says
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The missing 15-year-old daughter of a Newark anti-violence activist was kidnapped and murdered after leaving her home in South Carolina, a local sheriff said.
The three-week search for Sanaa Amenhotep ended early Thursday when investigators discovered her body in a wooded-area of Lexington County, South Carolina, according to officials.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka called the killing a tragedy and offered his condolences to Sanaa’s father, Sharif Malik Amenhotep, a member of the city’s Brick City Peace Collective.
“On behalf of the people of Newark, I would like to express my sincere condolences to Sharif Malik Amenhotep, on the tragic loss of his beautiful and intelligent Black daughter, Sanaa Amenhotep, who was kidnapped and murdered in South Carolina,” Baraka said.