Days after a tornado whipped through Bowling Green, Ky., one last missing person has been found: a 13-year-old girl who perished along with six family members.
“We’ve located the body of 13-year-old Nyssa Brown. Her body was located in a very dense briar thicket,” said Bowling Green Police Dept. Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward during a press conference Thursday. “What makes this even more tragic is that Nyssa is the final member of the Brown family to be located.”
According to Ward, Brown’s patents, her three siblings and her grandmother also died during the violent storm that blew through Kentucky late Friday and early Saturday. As of Friday morning, 76 people in the state had been confirmed dead due to the tornado and another 16 were still missing.
Outside of Kentucky, record-breaking tornadoes hit parts of the South and Midwest last weekend.
When the tornado came through the Moss Creek Avenue neighborhood of Bowling Green where Brown’s family lived, it reduced many homes to ruins, according to WLKY News. At one point, 244 people in the town were reported missing, said Bowling Green City Commissioner Carlos Bailey.
Though her family members’ remains were found soon after the storm passed, Nyssa Brown remained unaccounted for. Authorities asked for help to locate her.
“We’ve notified all the family, and we just ask that you pray for them,” said Ward.
Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman traveled to Bowling Green Thursday and promised residents the state will do “everything it can” to help the families impacted by the deadly tornado. Volunteers have also come to Bowling Green from throughout Kentucky and other states to help clean up debris.
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