Missing: Tangena Hussain
Case: Possible Foul Play
Nickname: Unknown
Missing From: Hamtramck, Michigan
Missing Date: October 02, 2008
Race: White (East Indian Descent) Sex: Female
Age at Time Missing: 2 years old
Year of Birth: 2006
Height: 38″
Weight: 34”
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Tattoos: None
Scars/Piercings/Unique Marks: Tangena has a burn scar on her upper lip/chin area.
Other:
Police Agency: Detroit Police Department 313-596-2300 (Comm. J. Tolbert)
Case Number: WDM784, NamUs 4499, and NCMEC #1107030
Circumstance: A 27-year-old Hamtramck man said he left his girlfriend’s daughter, Tangena Hussain, in the back seat of a red, 1997 four-door Geo Prizm while he went inside the Marathon gas station at 20500 Greenfield Road, near Eight Mile in Detroit, to buy chewing gum, according to a Michigan State Police Amber alert.
When he returned, the girl was gone, Detroit police said. The man did not check the area for the girl, police said. The man told investigators his car was locked at the time the girl went missing.
The man and Tangena were on their way to pick up Tangena’s 24-year-old mother, also a Hamtramck resident, from work at Northland Mall. The boyfriend had the child when he dropped his girlfriend off at work about 2 p.m., police said.
After discovering the girl was gone, the boyfriend drove to the mall and picked up Tangena’s mother, police said. The authorities were not contacted until the mother’s boss told her she should do so, police said.
Tangena was last seen at approximately 9:00 p.m. on October 2, 2008 at the Marathon Gas Station in Detroit, Michigan. She has a scar on her upper lip and chin. She was last seen wearing a brown long sleeved shirt with a cartoon character on the front, white cargo pants, and gold sandals.
