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Fehintola Omidele : 25-year-old doctor missing for a week, family seeks help
Family and friends are worried sick about Fehintola Omidele whose been missing since November 30th.
Update: Fehintola Omidele was found safe in El Campo, TX.
Our black and missing story of the week is for a doctor, whose been missing for a week now.
Family and friends are worried sick about Fehintola Omidele whose been missing since November 30th.
The 25-year-old is a first year resident at Memorial Hermann, specializing in pediatrics.
According to KHOU, her father received a frantic call phone from her mentor.
“I got a call that she didn’t show up at work on Monday. I went to her apartment,” said Sejun Omidele.
Sejun Omidele left work and drove to his daughter’s southwest Houston apartment. Her Toyota Camry was gone. Her father found her cell phone and has been holding onto it ever since.
“She goes to work every day and she likes to be on top of everything. She is someone who is very friendly, she has amazing friends who will go to any length to do anything for her. She is extremely kind-hearted, good-hearted,” said her father.
Nicknamed FT, her family says this is nothing like her to disappear.
Doctor Omidele is 5’5 and weighs about 145 lbs. She drives a 2011 dark grey Toyota Camry with Texas plates BZ2L971.
Call Houston police with any information or UT police at 713-792-2890.
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