“I want her to know her daddy loves her,” search continues for missing teen - WJHL
“If she sees this I want her to know her daddy loves her and he wants her to come home,” Eddie Wilson, Haylegh’s dad said. Police said they may be traveling in a maroon 2004 Ford Explorer Sport Trac with Tennessee plate D6020D. “I first couldn’t believe it because Hayleigh is just this sweet 14-year-old girl who wore baggy pant or basketball shorts, baggy shirt. Just a sweet little kid,” Wilson said. Wilson said Hayleigh is about to be a freshman in high school. “She has already been talking about college, preparing herself for college to be a chemist,” Wilson said. “Just a couple of weeks before she left we started seeing a few things, that she started dressing different and her language was different,” Wilson said. Her dad said he thinks she ran away with Shook, a man police believe she met online. “When I ran a criminal history on Shook, turned out to be wanted out of Georgia for failure to register as a sex offender,” Surgoinsville Police Chief James Hammonds said. “He’s got an extensive criminal history,” Hammonds said. “It’s just terrifying to know that you’ve got a 14-year-old child in the hands of somebody like that,” Wilson said. Source: wjhl.com
