Overview

• Authorities have escalated their search by integrating digital forensics with federal law enforcement resources.
• Police consider 16-year-old Katie Hong voluntarily missing but classify her as at-risk after she left her Fremont home on July 26.
• A note recovered from her residence stated she intended to meet individuals known only by their online screen names.
• Investigators tracked her via surveillance from Queens Park Court to Irvington Community Park and a gas station at Blacow Road and Grimmer Boulevard.
• Her phone was found at the park but no further digital footprint has been detected and search warrants have yielded no leads.