BREAKING - Ahrea'l Smith - Missing Person - VIRGINIA

Arrest made in connection with the disappearance of Ahreal Smith

On January 15, 2022, Tyrone N. Samuel, age 50, of Heathsville, VA was arrested and charged with the abduction of Ahreal Smith.

Ahrea’l Smith is a Virginia woman who disappeared after taking the garbage out at a Heathsville convenience store where she works.

Smith, 28, was working at the Claraville Little Sue Food Store when she took a trash bag outside and vanished with her car running, sheriff’s officials said.

She was last seen wearing a black Nike hoodie, blue jeans, and brown UGG boots. Authorities do not have a location for a search to commence, Northumberland County Sheriff Johnny Beauchamp said in a video news conference.

Lydia Smith, Ahrea’l’s sister, said in the news conference: “If anybody knows anything, big, small, whatever, let us know. Call the police, tip hotline…it’s getting cold. My sister’s been gone for almost two days…. Somebody knows something. Please help us.”

So far the case has not gotten the media attention of, say, the Gabby Petito missing person’s case this summer. There has long been criticism of racial disparities in the media’s coverage of missing person’s cases, a phenomenon dubbed “missing white women syndrome” by The New Yorker.

Source:
https://www.theawarefoundationofvirginia.com/