GREENSBORO, N.C. — You may be familiar with an 'Amber Alert' or 'Silver Alert', but what is an 'Ashanti Alert'?
An Ashanti Alert is used when investigators think an adult who doesn't fall under an Amber or Silver Alert has been abducted or kidnapped.
This is for anyone between the ages of 18 and 64.
The alert is named after Ashanti Billie who was abducted and killed in 2017.
Billie was abducted from JEB Little Creek, only to be found murdered in North Carolina. She was 19 years old at the time of her abduction; too old for an Amber Alert, and too young for a Silver Alert. Her parents thought an alert could have helped save their daughter's life.
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