(NewsNation) — Police in San Francisco are currently looking for a British tourist who went missing just as she was taking a solo trip to California.
According to local news outlet KTVU, Katherine Esther Gamboa Kerwood flew into the San Francisco International Airport on March 31 for a weeklong sightseeing trip. Her family said she’d planned to make stops in Sacramento, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
Kerwood told her family she would be checking into a hostel in Sacramento on Tuesday, March 31, but they later learned she never did that. They say the last text they got from her was sent Friday, April 3.
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“She’s generally very responsive, and the fact that she didn’t message for hours is the first signal,” family friend Ali Zaidi said.
Her father said there was security camera footage from the airport that shows Kerwood meeting a man who was carrying flowers once she got there. They later found out that she’d met the man, only identified as David, in the U.K.
She has been reported missing to both the San Francisco Police Department and to authorities in the U.K. Kerwood had a scheduled flight to return to London on Wednesday.
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