{"id":297338,"date":"2026-07-16T03:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:49:49","slug":"brooklyn-park-girl-13-last-seen-nearly-a-month-ago-leaving-home-on-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297338\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park girl, 13, last seen nearly a month ago leaving home on foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the northern Twin Cities metro are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating a 13-year-old girl who went missing nearly a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Ivy Rhodes Schmitz was last seen leaving on foot from the 8500 block of Edinbrook Crossing North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on June 22, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz is described as a Black girl standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 175 pounds, with black hair and black eyes. She was last seen wearing a white shirt with a black Nike jacket, camouflage pants and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e50fb4f1-f759-4e86-90dc-757bb30b69b9.png#.png\" alt=\"e50fb4f1-f759-4e86-90dc-757bb30b69b9.png \" height=\"752\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Karen Ivy Rhodes Schmitz \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz&#8217;s direction of travel is unknown, but police say she has connections to the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an extensive investigation, authorities say they are still unable to locate Schmitz.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen Schmitz or knows her whereabouts is asked to contact the Brooklyn Park Police Department via Hennepin County Dispatch at 952-258-5321 or call 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in the northern Twin Cities metro are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating a 13-year-old girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7942,3129,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-297338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park-news","tag-missing-person","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}