April 7, 2009 in News

Teen girl still missing after leaving Wal-Mart

The Spokesman-Review

Spokane police are looking for Noel A. Kalekini, 14, who walked out of the Wal-Mart on North Colton Street near Northpointe Shopping Center on Monday, April 6, and disappeared. Kalekini, who has developmental disabilities, was last seen at 9:20 p.m. on store security cameras leaving the store alone.
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Two Spokane area teenagers are missing, and police are asking for the public’s help finding them.

KC Allen Kultgen, 13, hasn’t been seen since 11 p.m. March 30, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. He was in the area of Glenrose Road and Glennaire Drive in south Spokane County, but his mother thinks he may have walked to the Browne’s Mountain area or to the area near 57th and Regal.

The seventh-grader at Chase Middle School may have also tried to get to Hayden, Idaho or Moses Lake, according to the sheriff’s office.

Noel A. Kalekini, 14, left the Wal-Mart on North Colton Street near Northpointe Shopping Center Monday about 9:20 p.m. and hasn’t been seen since, according to Spokane police.

She was last seen wearing a zip-up hooded top, a white undershirt, blue jeans and tan, Ugg-brand boots, police said.

Anyone with information on Kultgen or Kalekini’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Crime Check at (509) 456-2233.

Five comments on this story so far. Add yours!

spoketucky on April 07 at 8:48 a.m.
“Asian?” Why is that term still used to “describe” people? Do people from Iraq look the same as those from Manchuria? Aren't they both “Asians.”

Judging from her last name and appearance in this photography, I'd say a much more accurate description would have been “pacific islander” or “hawaiian.”

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Kevin Simmons on April 07 at 8:56 a.m.
On KHQ they reported that she has the mental capacity of an 8 year old or a 10 year old. What on earth was she doing alone at Wal-Mart at 9:20 pm? And on a school night?

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kden on April 07 at 8:03 p.m.
As more of the story develops it's said that she had an addiction to the internet and contacting older men she met online. Last month she logged 1600 phone calls. This is what her mom said on tonight's news. And so where was her mother this whole time when a young girl with a mental capacity of an 8 year old is contacting older men via the internet and phone. She said it so matter-of-factly like she had no control over it. Sounds like the mom was not much brighter if she let her daughter hoodwink her into going to Walmart, where she snuck out to call someone from a business next door.

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