Officials say a 13-year-old girl and her 18-year-old boyfriend missing from Grayson County were spotted in South Carolina.
Cheyenne Phillips, was reported missing on Jan. 3. Officials say she is with Dalton Hayes. Witnesses reportedly spotted the pair at a Walmart about 90 minutes north of Charleston.
Officials say the teens were in a stolen 2006 Toyota Tacoma with Kentucky farm license plate 005-OCD. The truck had an unloaded long gun inside when the teens took it.
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“We’re hoping the two of them have enough sense not to do something with that gun, and hoping it never comes to that,” Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins said.
Police say Phillips was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, black sweat pants and cowboy boots. Hayes was last seen wearing jeans, a UK T-shirt and black tennis shoes.
Hayes’ mother, Tammy Martin, said the teenagers recently started dating. Martin said she didn’t know Phillips was only 13 years old, and said Hayes didn’t know until recently either. She tearfully pleaded for them to come home.
“I don’t know why they’re doing it,” Martin said. “I just wish they would turn themselves in.”
She said she last heard from her son via text message on Jan. 6
“It says, ‘Mommy, don’t worry. I’m fine, okay — plenty of money and food. Love you, good night, sweet dreams,'” Martin said.
She said recent phone calls went straight to voice mail, which is full.
Deputies say the behavior of the teens continues to become increasingly “brazen and dangerous,” and the teenagers’ situation will get worse the longer they remain on the run — especially if law enforcement officials who don’t know them personally start chasing them.
“Whatever it is, it can be worked through,” Chaffins said. “That’s what we want to tell these young people — we want them to come home.”
