Family pleads for info after 18-year-old Nevada woman vanishes from Walmart parking lot in ‘suspicious’ disappearance
Eleven days after an 18-year-old Nevada woman went missing, her parents and siblings are begging for help.
Naomi Irion was last seen in her car in the parking lot of a Fernley Walmart on March 12 around 5 a.m., according to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.
At 5:24 a.m., a man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark pants or jeans and dark tennis shoes got into Irion’s car and the pair drove off with him behind the wheel, according to surveillance footage.
The four-door sedan was found days later near the Fernley industrial park next to Interstate 80, which covers the cross-country trek from San Francisco to New Jersey.
“This is life and death for a beautiful and fun and loving sister, daughter and friend,” Tamara Cartwright, Naomi’s sister, said at a press conference Tuesday.
“She is just starting her adult life. She hasn’t even gone to college yet. She just graduated high school.”
The sheriff’s office has called Irion’s disappearance “suspicious in nature” and the FBI described it as an abduction.
Police are searching for a dark, 2020 or newer Chevrolet 2500-3500 High Country Silverado truck.
“If you find any of (the evidence) just laying out, please call. It could be vital to saving her life, and that’s our No. 1 goal right now,” Diana Irion, Naomi’s mother, said Tuesday. “Please, save my daughter and bring her home. Please.”
Anyone with information about Irion’s whereabouts is asked to contact investigators at 775-463-6620 or detective@lyon-county.org.
