Friends, family, co-workers and strangers are keeping hope that they’ll find 33-year-old Apryl Foster.
Tampa police released surveillance photos Thursday showing what the Brandon woman looked like early Feb. 12 when she was last seen.
One week after her disappearance, co-workers at Ulele restaurant in Tampa held a vigil. They’re hopeful that officers will find their friend. “She was a special person that glowed. She smiled. She lived life every moment,” says Richard Gonzmart, owner of Ulele.
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Gonzmart and his family have given a considerable amount to the reward fund. They’re hoping the $25,000 reward will encourage anyone with information on Foster to come forward. “We haven’t given up and we won’t ever give up.”
At the Bad Monkey in Ybor City, the bar and the Tampa Bay Brewing Company are working together to raise money for her parents. Craig and Peggy Beman drove here from Texas to look for their daughter. Foster met friends at the Bad Monkey after getting off of her shift at Ulele. She left the Bad Monkey just after midnight last Thursday.
“Ybor City is where the heart beats in Tampa and when something like this happens all of down here, it just kills us and we just want to pull together as a family and do something,” says Mike Doble with the Tampa Bay Brewing Company. He never met Foster, but like others in the community, he worries for her.
He says hope is not lost, “I’m driving around and I can’t help but look down alleys and look down the streets and wonder, ‘where did she go?”
And hope is not lost. Investigators are hoping for tips that give them leads. They want people look at her pictures and look out for cars that match the description of her 2009 red Chevrolet Aveo.
