GILMAN CITY, Mo. (AP) - Authorities have filed kidnapping charges against a 23-year-old man who is accused of leaving a northwest Missouri home with a 15-year-old girl he was legally prohibited from contacting.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol issued an endangered person advisory for Bailey Ann Summers, who was last seen Thursday leaving a Gilman City home with 23-year-old Elijah McPike. Gilman City is about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City. The patrol's advisory said McPike "has been known to be violent and suicidal."
McPike was charged Friday with kidnapping and violating a protection order, according to the Harrison County prosecutor's office. It was unclear if McPike has a lawyer.
Harrison County Sheriff Josh Eckerson said Friday that a protection order served July 7 prohibits McPike from contacting Summers. He said the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has also been notified about the search for the missing girl because McPike's cellphone signal was located late Thursday in Edwardsville, Kan.
"I'm really concerned considering what we've been told," Eckerson said.
Eckerson said Summers, who lives in nearby Grundy County, was visiting friends at a home in Harrison County on Thursday when she apparently spoke with McPike on the phone and later left with him. He said witnesses noted Summers wasn't upset or crying when the two were seen leaving together.
"I'm not really for sure what the relationship is between these two," Eckerson said.
McPike may be driving a silver 2001 Dodge Ram extended cab truck with Missouri license plate 5DB857. The sheriff said McPike may also have a Suzuki motorcycle with skulls painted on it.