A missing Native American woman who was at the center of a Feather Alert after she went missing more than a week ago was identified as the body found in San Bernardino County over the weekend.
Lake Elsinore woman Amy Porter, 43, had not been seen since Sept. 14 when she was staying at a motel in Pomona with a man she knew, family members said. Cameras caught her final moments, as she appeared to be rushing away from the area.
A week later, the California Highway Patrol issued a Feather Alert, which is designed to provide information to the public when an indigenous person goes missing, at the request of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Porter is a member of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.
In the time since she was last seen, family members have launched a desperate search for their loved one, saying that local law enforcement was not doing enough to find her. They say her love for her daughter would never have kept her away for long…