Watts teen back home after disappearing on 1st day of school, family says

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A 16-year-old girl from Watts is back home after a frantic day-long search across Los Angeles County.

Prior to her return home, the public was asked to be on the lookout for Mayanin Vazquez, who was last seen on her first day of school on Monday, August 12.

At the time of her disappearance, officials with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Vazquez was going to school with her siblings when she went to a Smart and Final store located in the 9800 block of Laurel Street on the border of South LA’s Florence-Firestone neighborhood. 

That’s when investigators – at the time – said Vazquez became separated from her siblings and her sister was able to take a video of her sister walking with a man she hadn’t seen before. 

The two were also captured on the store's surveillance cameras. 

Vazquez never made it to school and her family has not heard from her since that bizarre morning. 

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At the time of her disappearance, Vazquez’s father told authorities this was unusual and that his daughter had never left the family's home without sharing her whereabouts.