A Gwinnett County mother is frantically searching for her 21-year-old daughter who disappeared after taking an Uber ride into Atlanta Friday.
Monique Priester made the trip from her Dacula home to Georgia State University where she is a student.
Jacqueline VanLoo-Al Kush spoke to her daughter by phone at 6:15 that evening when she was getting ready to head home.
“She said I took Uber down here but I realized if I ride with other people, it’s cheaper. She said we’re waiting on the last person now and then I’m headed back to Gwinnett,” she tells WSB's Sandra Parrish.
She says 30 minutes earlier she had tracked her daughter’s phone to somewhere on Metropolitan Parkway.
Priester never returned home and her phone has since been turned off. There had been no activity on her debit card until Monday morning when her mother found it had been used in Nashville.
VanLoo-Al Kuch has filed a missing person’s report with both Gwinnett County Police as well as Georgia State Police. The missing woman's friends are also passing out flyers at on the school’s campus.
She’s hoping police here will be able to follow up leads in Nashville regarding her daughter’s debit card.
“I hope she’s safe and okay,” says VanLoo-Al Kush. “I want her to come back home.”
So far Gwinnett Police say they have no reason to suspect foul play. Uber says it is cooperating with the investigation.
