Found Unharmed: Diana Windowmaker

Lansing police say they have found 10-year-old Diana Rose Windowmaker. She appears uninjured.

Details were not immediately available on where she was located or the circumstances of her abduction.
Advertisement

Police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday for the girl who was originally reported as 11 years old.

Valerie Windowmaker, the girl’s mother said earlier in a news conference, “If anybody has seen Diana please help her. Please call police.”

She made a plea to her daughter: “I love you and I want you home."

Diana was last seen at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of West Maple Street near Comstock Park in the company of a man who looked to be about 40. She was last seen by a younger sibling.

Lansing police spokesman Lt. Noel Garcia said police don't believe the man took Diana by force, but added that when a young girl "leaves with a person that age, even willingly, there's some kind of coercion that could be there."

Garcia said police received tips from the public.

Garcia said the family does not live near where she was abducted. The family stays in an assisted living center in Lansing.

Diana went missing near the Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy. Mark Eitrem, superintendent of the school, said she has never been a student there.

Eitrem said a staff member saw the girl at about 1:30 p.m. with two younger boys. They knocked on the main entrance of the school and Diana asked to use the bathroom, he said. They were not allowed to enter because maintenance was being done on the hallway, he said. The children left.

Eitrem said police were at the three-building campus Tuesday. He said police interrupted a board meeting at about 6 p.m. to ask if there were student activities on campus. Eitrem said there weren’t because school is closed for summer.

Tom Carmoney, an office assistant at the North Neighborhood Center near the school, said he was at the center around the time the girl went missing. He said he never saw her and people were going about their activities in the neighborhood as normal. The area is a mix of residential homes and some vacant buildings.

"It kind of surprised me that someone would come up missing around here because of organizations working around here such as the school," he said.

Kathy Rogers, who lives on Pine Street, is the coordinator of the Neighborhood Watch 127 and vice present of the Old Forest Neighborhood Association.

She said she did not know the girl but is concerned about neighborhood safety.

“I’ve got a granddaughter who is 13, and it really makes you wonder if it’s safe,” she said.

Her granddaughter does not live in Lansing but visits frequently in the summer.

“I have concerns, you know. I want my granddaughter safe,” she said.

Rogers' Neighborhood Watch has a meeting tonight and will likely discuss the incident, she said.

[Source]