Redondo Beach Police located Emma Carter, the 15-year-old whose parents reported her missing on Tuesday, at a San Bernardino bus station Thursday morning.
Sgt. Shawn Freeman did not disclose details but confirmed the Redondo Union High School student had been located.
Her mother, Mary Carter, broke down on the phone to Easy Reader as she was pulling into the parking lot of the station where she was to be reunited with her daughter.
“She was found, she was found safe, and she is okay,” Mary Carter said. “We’d like to thank everyone for their efforts, the long search hours, helping with the fliers, getting it out on social media. We’d like to thank the papers for putting it out there so quick, we’d like to thank everybody for allowing us to post the picture and everybody for their prayers and thoughts.
“It was just a massive effort and we are so grateful, we are just so grateful we found her and she’s safe.
“In this wretched world we live in, there’s so much bad, but when something like this happens, the love and the good comes out and there really are so many wonderful people out there. When something like this happens you know that you’re loved and the effort [to find Emma] showed that she’s just really loved.”
Carter left home at about noon on Tuesday, without telling her parents where she intended to go. Her mother said Emma woke late and noted only that she was “a little sad” before leaving the house, in the vicinity of 182nd St. and Inglewood Ave., without any explanation.
