Silver Alert update: Missing Hazlehurst teen found, safe

Published 10:59 am Thursday, September 14, 2023

A Hazlehurst teenager reported missing has been located and is safe.

On Monday, Sept. 11, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert for 17-year-old Mishayla Jackson.

Jackson was described as a black female, five foot seven inches tall, weighing 147 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. Jackson had been last seen Thursday, September 7th, at 2:00 a.m. in the 1000 block of Skipper Lane in Hazlehurst, wearing a black hoodie, gray shorts, and tan slippers.

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Just before 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, MBI issued a report that Jackson had been found and was safe.