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Missing 9-year-old found safe, CMPD says

CHARLOTTE — A missing nine-year-old girl that police were asking for the public’s help to find has been located and is unharmed according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

The search for Ka’Mya Yeldel began around 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday when she was last seen on foot in the 1400 block of Samuel Street at the Stevenson Apartments, off Statesville Avenue in north Charlotte.

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She was wearing an orange and white tie-dyed shirt, shorts and white Crocs.

Yeldell is about 4 feet, 8 inches tall with long, black braids.

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