“She’s the kind of person that collects people, that brings people together when you have a problem,” said a friend of Amy Hillyard
NEED TO KNOW
- A coffee shop owner was last seen near her home in Oakland, Calif., on March 25
- Four days later, hundreds of locals gathered for a vigil to help in the search for the missing mom of two
- “What we’re hoping for tonight is to generate as much attention on the fact that she’s missing and how loved she is in hopes it’ll ultimately bring her home,” family friend Tom Green said
A coffee shop owner and mom of two vanished after she was seen leaving her California home.
Fifty-two-year-old Amy Hillyard was last seen on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 25, around 2 p.m. local time in the 500 block of Radnor Road, less than half a mile away from Lake Merritt, the Oakland Police Department said in an alert.
Hillyard was last seen wearing a tan top and tan pants, police said. She is described as a white woman with blonde hair and hazel eyes, who is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Police said that the missing woman is “at risk due to medical conditions.”…