PORT ANGELES — A 15-year-old Sequim girl who had been missing since Sunday was found safe at about 2 p.m. today.
Elizabeth Morse, who was last seen at the Clallam County Fairgrounds at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, was found safe today, said her mother, Shawna Ervin, at 6:30 p.m. tonight.
Morse had disappeared after telling her friends she was going to be picked up by an aunt.
She does not have an aunt in the area who would have picked her up, Ervin said.
“I just wanted to let you know that Elizabeth was found . . . today at around 2 p.m. and she is OK,” Ervin said in an email to the Peninsula Daily News.
She confirmed in a phone call that her daughter had been found on a bus.
Until then, Morse had contacted friends but had not returned home or contacted family members, her mother said.
The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office had listed Morse — who is 5- feet-1-inch tall and has blonde hair and blue-green eyes — as a runaway and deputies were checking leads and talking to other teens who might have seen her, said Ron Cameron, chief criminal deputy.
