As police search for a killer believed to have snatched 20-year-old Brenna Machus from a Family Dollar Store in Dearborn on Monday, her mother issues a public plea to the abductor.
Brenna Machus, 20, of Romulus.
[Photo from Megan Utley]
Serena Maria Daniels of The Detroit News was at Wednesday appearance by Lisa Machus, who's quoted as saying:
“Brenna is a shining star. She’s loved by many. If there’s someone out there that has her, drop her off at a hospital. Let us know. We will come get her.”
She spoke, flanked by police and friends, at an emotional press conference on a crime that has rocked Dearborn. Her daughter hasn’t been seen since Monday night, when her co-worker at the Family Dollar Store in Dearborn, Joseph Orlando, 20, of Dearborn, was shot and killed. Employees found his body the next morning and the store in disarray.
The missing Romulus woman's brother, Ryan, told Daniels that his sister regularly worked 12- to 15-hour shifts and sometimes closed the Family Dollar by herself.
He had told his sister to quit, but she toughed it out because she was loyal to the company, Machus said.
“She was nervous about the job a lot,” said Machus, 28, of South Rockwood.
Police hope that exterior security camera footage can lead them to a vehicle presumably used by a man seen on surveillance video entering the store at 7:26 p.m. Monday, The News reports. His face is hidden by a black hoodie.
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