UPDATE (Thursday, March 10, 11:15 a.m.): San Francisco Police have confirmed in an email to KCBS Radio that Dessalines was found in Berkeley and is currently speaking with officers. They did not release any additional information.
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KTVU first reported that Dessalines was found, citing a text they received from one of her friends. In addition, a Twitter user named @taderfxt posted at 3:25 a.m. that Dessalines was found and recovering from a "really traumatizing event."
The original story is below:
San Francisco police are investigating a possible kidnapping at Fisherman's Wharf after a transgender woman went missing early Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco Police Department said in a release on Wednesday night that officers were dispatched to Beach Street and Powell Street just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday for a reported kidnapping. Investigators later "canvassed the area for the missing person, evidence and witnesses to no avail."
Police didn't initially identify the missing person in a statement to KCBS Radio earlier Wednesday, but officials said Wednesday night the victim was a 20-year-old Black trans woman named Isa Dessalines. San Francisco misspelled her name in the release and repeatedly identified Dessalines by her deadname.
Dessalines' friends had been posting about her disappearance under the hashtag "#FindIsa" on Twitter and Instagram. After identifying Dessalines as the victim, police provided no additional information about her disappearance.
Both the department's Special Victims Unit and "other law enforcement agencies" are investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 415-575-4444 or text TIP411.
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