NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Long Island officials launched an investigation after a young girl was spotted wandering the streets barefoot and alone on Tuesday night, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
At around 10:20 p.m., a 911 caller reported seeing the little girl, believed to be about 8 to 10 years old, walking without shoes through a BP gas station parking lot on Nassau Road in Roosevelt.
The child was then seen on surveillance video walking across a bridge over the Southern State Parkway before disappearing into a wooded area at Nassau Road.
Authorities launched an aviation unit and using a police K-9 Unit on the ground in an attempt to locate the child.
The department's missing persons unit also responded to the scene Tuesday night, but according to a police spokesperson, police had no reports of a missing child.
Officials said the girl was wearing pink pajama pants, a white and blue horizontal striped shirt, large hoop earrings, and no shoes.
