What we know about the disappearance of 4-year-old Cyril girl - KOCO Oklahoma City

Oklahoma and national instrumentality enforcement are searching for a missing 4-year-old miss who was reported missing Tuesday day successful Cyril. Below is what we know.Who is MissingAuthorities are searching for 4-year-old Athena Brownfield. She has blonde hairsbreadth and was past seen wearing a butterfly hoodie.| MORE | Search continues for missing 4-year-old Cyril miss reported missing TuesdayThe Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation initially said Athena is 3 but has since confirmed that she is 4.Timeline of EventsThe probe into Athena's disappearance started astir 2 p.m. Tuesday aft a message bearer recovered an unattended 5-year-old miss – whom OSBI says is Athena's sister – adjacent their location successful the 200 artifact of West Nebraska successful Cyril.Oklahoma instrumentality enforcement and the FBI person conducted searches and an probe into the disappearance since then.Brook Arbeitman, with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said instrumentality enforcement is moving to enactment unneurotic an nonstop timeline of erstwhile Athena was past seen."We're inactive moving connected putting unneurotic the nonstop timeline. But again, I tin corroborate that this probe truly kicked disconnected yesterday astatine 2 p.m. erstwhile the postal bearer located the 5-year-old and contacted the constabulary department. And past we got progressive aboriginal that night," Arbeitman said. "Then, of course, each of our instrumentality enforcement partners person joined us, and we've been looking for her nonstop since the archetypal telephone came into the constabulary department." The SearchAuthorities accidental the hunt has been underway since learning that Athena was missing Tuesday afternoon.Law enforcement has deployed infrared helicopters and conducted grid searches connected ft with the assistance of volunteers and utilizing four-wheelers. They besides person utilized boats connected tiny ponds."Our ERT Team, which is simply a squad specialty trained to spell connected ft successful hunt of radical and things, are retired successful coordination with civilians who person travel and wanted to unpaid their clip and effort," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Foster said.Arbeitman said they are collecting items that could beryllium relevant, but she said she's not calling them grounds arsenic of Wednesday afternoon."We are uncovering things astir municipality that could beryllium adjuvant successful this case," Arbeitman said. "We are uncovering things that we anticipation mightiness springiness america clues connected wherever she is. We're inactive actively looking for her."Arbeitman said the crushed grid hunt with volunteers was called disconnected Wednesday afternoon, but authorities brought successful Oklahoma Department of Corrections dogs to hunt for Athena. Why an Amber Alert Was Not IssuedFoster said an Amber Alert was not issued due to the fact that the circumstances surrounding Athena's disappearance bash not conscionable the circumstantial guidelines required."The Amber Alert has circumstantial guidelines that we person to adhere to propulsion retired the Amber Alert specifically," Foster said. "The Amber Alert goes retired nationwide. Once we propulsion that button, it goes each the mode to Washington, D.C., and goes retired similar that. So, there's circumstantial things and guidelines that we person to follow. Not each portion of that line came into play successful this, truthful that wasn't done."A missing and endangered idiosyncratic alert went retired Tuesday to radical successful a 15-mile radius of Cyril."That's wherefore you didn't get it statewide – those exigency alerts statewide," Foster said. "It went locally, and that was truly the important timeframe that we needed to get that out."Foster added that accusation besides was enactment connected societal media truthful radical and the media could get the accusation retired to much people. "It was done successful a precise businesslike mode by guidelines," Foster said. and determination are reasons for those guidelines that the Department of Justice puts retired those guidelines to assistance america benignant of enactment that together." How to HelpThe Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said anyone who wants to assistance oregon has accusation tin spell to the bid halfway astatine Family Life Church adjacent the country of Third Street and Idaho Avenue.The OSBI asks anyone with a doorbell camera oregon surveillance camera to travel to Family Life Church truthful instrumentality enforcement tin look astatine the video. The bureau besides urges Cyril residents to hunt their properties.Arbeitman besides urged radical to not dispersed rumors oregon gossip connected societal media due to the fact that it tin beryllium counterproductive to the hunt and investigation.Anyone with accusation astir Athena's determination is asked to interaction the OSBI extremity enactment astatine 800-522-8017 oregon email tips@osbi.ok.gov. Where is Cyril, Oklahoma?Cyril is simply a municipality located successful Caddo County and is simply a small much than an hour's thrust southwest of Oklahoma City. What Else Do We Still Not Know?An nonstop timeline of erstwhile Athena went missing.Where Athena's parents are. When asked astir wherever Athena's parents are, Arbeitman said, "That's portion of the ongoing investigation."Does instrumentality enforcement fishy foul play?If so, are determination immoderate suspects?This is simply a processing story. Stay with KOCO 5 arsenic much astir the hunt unravels.