Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons hosts annual barbecue

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – The United Community Effort Center for Missing Persons held its annual barbecue on Saturday, May 25.

Harriet Rivers was there to raise awareness of her daughter Ebonee Spears, who has been missing for eight years. She hopes her daughter is still there.

“It’s someone’s child. A member of someone's family. This is a person that needs to be found and returned to his family,” Rivers said.

Other families, like Loretta Davis, are hoping for another form of closure.

“My son disappeared in 2016. One year and 4 months later, the CUE team found him. He was deceased,” Davis said.

Davis says her son's case has been closed, but it would only take one person to get it reopened.

“I don’t want to know the details. I just want the people who did this to pay the price for what they did to my son because he didn’t deserve this,” Davis said.

Rivers says it's the community that brings her back to events like these.

“You meet a lot of people and a lot of them are going through the same thing. Being able to share and support each other, it helps,” Rivers said.

She wants to encourage people to come forward because even a small detail could locate her daughter.

“If you know any information, please come forward. You will not be held accountable for anything you say, anything you share,” Rivers said.

Copyright 2024 WECT. All rights reserved.