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It was a windy and chilly day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the Friday morning of May 3, 2002. 7-year-old Alexis Patterson was just waking up to prepare for school. She could hear her mother, Ayana Patterson, and her stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, talking in the kitchen. Once dressed, Alexis went to the kitchen where her mother was preparing her school lunch. Alexis got into an argument with her mother when she refused to pack cupcakes with her daughter's meal. Ayana had informed Alexis she could not take any because her homework was not properly completed.Later that day, authorities at Hi-Mount Boulevard School contacted Ayana and LaRon about Alexis not showing up for classes. Both immediately contacted the Milwaukee Police Department. The police questioned Alexis' parents and found out about the child's argument with her mother. LaRon told them he had walked Alexis to school, which is only a block away, then dropped her off and left."I feel that maybe she walked off," said LaRon. "She was mad because we didn't let her take her cupcakes to school for her snack."With information on the child being a possible runaway, the police conducted an extensive search of the school area and neighborhood. Anyone who knew the family, including neighbors, teachers, classmates and people in surrounding neighborhoods were questioned. Several students claimed to have seen Alexis on the playground before school started. But further investigations proved this to be untrue. There still was no sign of the child."Maybe she walked off and somebody may have picked her up," offered LaRon.Law enforcement authorities knew that LaRon had a criminal background and served time in jail for drugs and driving a getaway car in a bank robbery, during which a policeman was murdered. LaRon voluntarily took and passed a polygraph test."I've been involved in wrong places at the wrong time," remarked LaRon. "I had a past, but I also have a future."The search for the missing child intensified as volunteers and law enforcement authorities combed the city and searched warehouses and lakes. After many unsuccessful attempts to find Alexis, it became apparent that she had been abducted by someone unknown. The FBI joined the search and the case received national attention on America's Most Wanted."I have faith. My child is coming home." said Ayana Patterson.Kenya Campbell, Alexis' biological father commented, "I don't know where my daughter is. I want answers. But me wanting answers isn't going to bring my daughter back. My main focus is trying to get my daughter back again." Campbell is not a suspect."I'm hoping to find her alive," said Milwaukee Police Captain Brian O'Keefe. "As time wears on, there's more problems with that, but we're still hoping to find her alive and we're not discounting that Alexis could be deceased, and we are prepared for all aspects of that."To worsen matters, somebody taped a vicious and racially derogative note to the doors of the America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. 22-year old Brian Werner, from Waukesha, Wisconsin was questioned as a suspect and released.It has been more than two years now, and investigators are still vigilantly searching for Alexis Patterson. Alexis was last seen wearing a red hooded jacket with gray stripes, a purple shirt, blue jeans and white Nike tennis shoes. She has a scar under her right eye and a bump on the little finger of her left hand. Anyone with information on this case should contact the Milwaukee Police Department (414-935-7401) or the nearest FBI Office.PLEASE KEEP THIS LITTLE GIRL IN YOUR PRAYERS IT HAS BEEN 5 YEARS AND HER FAMILY STILL DOES NOT HAVE HER AT HOME OR NO NEW CLUES OR NO SUSPECTS!!!! PLEASE HELP BRING THIS LITTLE GIRL HOME PLEASE.
