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Fremont Family Plans Private Investigation After GoFundMe Exceeds $50,000 for Missing Teen

The Fremont Police Department still classifies the 16-year-old as an at-risk runaway juvenile with no new leads on her digital footprint.

Where is Katie Hong? Concerns raised as Fremont teen vanishes, may have gone to meet strangers she knew through Discord (GoFundMe)
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Overview

  • Katie Hong has been missing since July 25, with her phone last recorded at Irvington Community Park and no online activity detected since.
  • Surveillance footage shows Hong leaving her Queens Park Court home carrying a desktop computer and walking toward Irvington Community Park before vanishing.
  • Investigators have not identified the online contacts she intended to meet, whom she knew only by screen names and had never met in person.
  • Her parents, both deaf, have taken leave from their jobs and launched a GoFundMe that has raised over $64,000 to hire a private investigator and cover legal and support services.
  • Community members, including students from the California School for the Deaf, continue distributing flyers and urging anyone with information to contact the Fremont Police tip line.