Search intensifies for missing Southern California girl, 15

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Family, friends and concerned strangers are ramping up their search for a 15-year-old Monterey Park girl who vanished while riding her bike to a relative's home last week.

Allison Chao was last seen on security video around 5:30 p.m. on July 16 when she left her father's house in the 200 block of North Ynez Avenue and started riding a blue mountain bike toward her aunt's home in San Gabriel, roughly three miles away.

The trip should have taken about 20 minutes. However, around 8 p.m., Allison's aunt called her father to say she hadn’t arrived, family members said.

“If she ran away, which I don’t think she would, she’s not like that. It’s like, just come home,” pleaded Annie Chao, Allison’s mother. “It’s going to be okay. I just want to make sure that you’re safe. I just want to find her.”