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Missing 14-year-old San Francisco girl found safe in Pittsburg

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UPDATE Feb. 26 5:03 p.m. Katlin Gallaread, who has been missing for more than a week, has been found safe in Pittsburg, according to a .An alert city landscape worker recognized Gallaread, 14, and her companion, Tyler Sexton, 16, according to police.Katlin's father, Jason Gallaread, confirmed to that Pittsburg police had located his daughter.Feb. 26 7:45 a.m.&nbsp;Jason Gallaread, Katlin Gallaread's father, told news outlets Thursday that she left a note prior to her sudden departure. In the note, per the, she expressed feelings of isolation due to the pandemic shutting down schools. (SFGATE and the Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)She's a freshman at Wallenberg High, and she said that her grades have been slipping. Her running away was motivated by a need to solve her problems, the Chronicle said.Feb. 25 9:15 p.m.&nbsp;Katlin Gallaread, who has been missing since Feb. 16, may be in the company of another runaway juvenile, .Gallaread, 14, is possibly traveling with Tyler Sexton, 16, of Monroe, Mich., police said. Sexton is described as a white male, 5-foot-6, weighing 155 pounds.The last known location of the two teens was Sacramento.Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the SFPD 24-hour tip line at 415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.Feb. 24 11:15 a.m. Bank records may prove to be evidence in solving the disappearance of a 14-year-old San Francisco girl.Katlin Gallaread was last seen on Tuesday, Feb. 16.That was when she last had dinner with her father, Jason Gallaread. He that Katlin went to her room after their meal together.At some point between that evening and early last Wednesday, Katlin left their home in the Western Addition. A Ring surveillance video found her outside their home at around 9:45 p.m. that time.The high school freshman has not contacted her family since — and her father said in a KTVU interview fears that she was she was talked into running from home by a stranger.At the time, that she frequented the Safeway on Webster Street, the Target on Geary Blvd. and Japantown.While the search for Katlin around San Francisco has continued to no end,&nbsp;Jason said that her bank records — withdrawn from her savings — may provide information as to her current whereabouts.A withdrawal was made in Chinatown, which he said was not a neighborhood she frequented, hours after she went missing. The next withdrawal reported took place days later, in West Sacramento, where the entirety of her savings account was withdrawn.Calls made to her phone are sent straight to voicemail."I'm very concerned for my daughter," Jason Gallaread told KTVU. "The streets are very tough. There's a lot of sick individuals out here."Police continue to search for any leads related to her disappearance and are working with other jurisdictions, but it remains unclear if the bank information or her cell phone use are being used as evidence. They are continuing to take any information on the SFPD tipline.A spokesman for San Francisco police declined to comment further, citing ongoing investigations to&nbsp;SFGATE.

UPDATE Feb. 26 5:03 p.m. Katlin Gallaread, who has been missing for more than a week, has been found safe in Pittsburg, according to a .An alert city landscape worker recognized Gallaread, 14, and her companion, Tyler Sexton, 16, according to police.Katlin's father, Jason Gallaread, confirmed to that Pittsburg police had located his daughter.Feb. 26 7:45 a.m.&nbsp;Jason Gallaread, Katlin Gallaread's father, told news outlets Thursday that she left a note prior to her sudden departure. In the note, per the, she expressed feelings of isolation due to the pandemic shutting down schools....

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