A teenage girl in Michigan didn’t go to her high school classes and never returned home on Friday afternoon. She somehow ended up dead near her high school’s athletic field.
On Monday, January 30, Michigan police announced they found the missing teenager, Adriana Davidson, at around 1 pm on Monday under the bleachers near the high school’s athletic field. There was no sign of foul play.
She was last seen alive on Friday near Pioneer High school, in Ann Arbor.
When Davidson, who was nicknamed Addy, did not return home from school on Friday, January 27, her family went looking for her and reported her missing on Saturday. Police conducted a search and rescue operation.
Davidson’s schoolmates said that they last saw her on Friday morning at around 11 am outside the school.
Addy arrived at the school in the morning on Friday via public bus but told her friends she wasn’t feeling well. She left the school and returned by public bus at noon, evidence of which is seen on the bus surveillance video. It is unclear where she went when she left the school. She did not go into the school when she returned and it is a mystery what followed.
According to her brother, Anthony Lopez, his sister texted with a friend at 12:26 pm on Friday. The friend asked her if she was okay, and she texted back, “No.” That was the last time the friend heard from her.
Lopez informed the police that someone had found his sister’s phone near the tennis courts on Friday and had given the phone to one of her best friends. Police are now in possession of the phone.
Police are trying to figure out the timeline. What happened to Davidson after she returned to the school and was found near the athletic field? Why did she leave the school? Why didn’t she go into the school when she returned?
On Saturday, Davidson’s brother Lopez posted on Facebook that he had heard that another student told Davidson’s friend that they had seen her at the bus stop near a man wearing all black, but they did not seem to know each other. It is unclear if the man has any connection to what happened to Davidson.
An autopsy has been performed and the results have not been publicized. Based on available video footage, police have determined that Davidson was alone when she died.
Students at the school are traumatized and upset about how mental health crises are handled in their school. The students and parents in the Ann Arbor Public School District are calling for improved mental health resources. Parents and students feel that the school didn’t reach out enough to the student body sufficiently after Davidson’s disappearance was announced. A petition called “Justice for Addy” was signed by 8,000 people, including students and parents. The petition points out that, “Students are still able to freely roam the school and leave whenever they would like without reason.”
The petition criticizes the way Ann Arbor Public Schools handled Davidson’s situation and students don’t understand why it took three days to find her. Some students have said that Davidson seemed depressed and that more could have been done to help her.
