Search on to find Jamaican woman missing in New York City

An intense search is under way in New York in the US to find a Jamaican woman who has gone missing since Wednesday, March 5.

 

Missing is 61-year-old Lilleith Hill-Marson who has not been seen or heard from since leaving an appointment in Manhattan. Her sister, Karen Lindo, told The Gleaner that her sister, who works for a law firm on Third Avenue in Manhattan, left her office on Wednesday afternoon for a doctor's appointment at Columbia Hospital.

 

“Security camera footage shows her leaving the building shortly after 5 p.m. on the day she went missing but we have not seen or heard from her since,” said Lindo.

 

The New York Police Department (NYPD), the New York Fire Department, Emergency Medical Service, and others have been assisting in the search for Hill-Marson, but so far no information has been forthcoming.

 

Police flyers are being circulated as well as flyers that family members made, hoping for word on their missing relative.

 

“We have gone to some homeless shelters, food pantries, we have scoured the subways, check along the streets, but so far nothing,” Lindo told The Gleaner.

 

Hill-Marson was born in St Ann, Jamaica, attended St Ann's Bay Primary, York Castle High and Brown's Town Community College. She worked in the hotel industry in Ocho Rios before migrating to the United States over 20 years ago.

 

Hill-Marson lived in Clarendon Gardens in Brooklyn with her husband and stepdaughter at the time of her disappearance.

 

According to Lindo, the police have searched Hill-Marson's apartment as well as the entire building hoping to get some clue to her whereabouts.

 

Her disappearance has also been circulated on social media sites as well as on school chat rooms.

 

Lindo said that although she is glad for the NYPD's assistance in trying to find her missing sister, she feels that it could be doing more.

 

“They have not looked at the security footage from Columbia Hospital, nor have they looked at security footage from the subway system,” she opined to The Gleaner.

 

Meanwhile, she is asking for the public's assistance in locating her sister.

 

“We are praying that she will be found safe and sound,” she said.

 

Follow The Gleaner on X and Instagram @JamaicaGleaner and on Facebook @GleanerJamaica. Send us a message on WhatsApp at 1-876-499-0169 or email us at onlinefeedback@gleanerjm.com or editors@gleanerjm.com.