Where's Leslie Obi? HPD homicide investigators comb SE Houston apartment complex
The 43-year-old was last seen on Jan. 11, 2023, on Charleston Park Drive along the US 90 Alternate.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston Police Department homicide detectives gathering at an apartment complex on the city's southeast side on Tuesday were brought there as part of the ongoing search for a 43-year-old woman who was last seen six days ago.
Authorities have not yet located Leslie Obi, who disappeared in a neighborhood just off the U.S. 90 Alternate south of the I-610 South Loop on Jan. 11, 2023.
Houston police confirm they are questioning one person in connection with the case, but they still don't have any evidence that leads them to believe foul play was a factor in Obi's disappearance.
She was more specifically last seen in the area of 17 Charleston Park Drive, according to Texas EquuSearch.
In the latest development in the case, HPD Homicide Division detectives began investigating an apartment complex at 9425 Scott St., which is about seven miles away from where she was last seen. HPD said no sign of her has been found, but detectives confirmed they were investigating the location as part of the case.
They did not immediately say what specifically led them to the address, but relatives at the scene said some of her belongings were found inside a unit.
While police could not say what took place on Scott Street, SkyEye flew over the area and captured a person in handcuffs being transferred from one patrol car to another.
A detective at the scene told Eyewitness News that they were following up on a tip in the case and reaffirmed that a body was not found there.
The person's identity has not yet been confirmed.
A close friend of Obi's at the scene on Scott said they were running low on hope that she would be found alive.
"We just wanna know where she's at," the unnamed friend said.
"We're supposed to stick together in this community, and folks need to speak up if they know something," another woman who lives in the community but did not want to be identified said. "It's not right. If this was your sister, your mother, or your daughter, you would want people to speak up."
Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch mentioned early on in the search that Obi's cousin had similarly disappeared 22 years ago. That person, Larry Guillory, was later found dead.
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