Missing Vallejo teen Pearl Pinson’s father is speaking publicly for the first time since his daughter was kidnapped.

This Friday marks two years since that tragic day. Her disappearance remains a mystery as the prime suspect in the case was killed in a shootout with police in Southern California.             

On Wednesday, KRON4 talked exclusively to Pearl’s father and her sister who are still hurting and say they need the public’s help in finding her.

“I’ve been on a two-year nightmare, a nightmare that I haven’t woken up from,” James Pinson said.

Pearl was kidnapped two years ago when she was 15 as she walked along this overpass on her way to school in Vallejo. She was dragged off and possibly shot in the process.  

James remembers that day well and wonders if his daughter is still alive.

“My little brother comes out saying that someone told him that some little girl with green hair was shot at the overpass and we went out right away looking for her,” Pinson said. “I didn’t believe it was her, and even after we came up and found her phones, I didn’t believe it was her until we seen the blood up there.”

“Another witness said that they seen Pearl running with a bloody face….one of Pearl’s friends said that she seen pearl being thrown in the trunk of his car,” Pearl’s sister Rosey said.

It took investigators more than 30 hours to issue an amber alert. Soon after that, they located the suspected abductor Fernando Castro in Southern California. There was a shootout and Castro died.

There was no sign of Pearl, who had green hair and blue-ish green eyes with a very recognizable laugh. Pearl’s blood was found in Castro’s trunk and also on the overpass where she was abducted from.

Pearl’s sister Rosey fought away tears as she spoke. She is brokenhearted two years later, not knowing if Pearl was killed or if she is suffering somewhere today.

The Pinson family does have a special event this Friday at 5 p.m. to mark two years since the kidnapping. City officials in Vallejo will be involved too.

They want to get her picture out there again in hopes that someone has some information that will help this case.

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