Lashaya was last seen in Aurora, Colorado in the early morning hours of July 15, 2016. She left home to meet an unspecified individual and never came back. The last sighting of her was on surveillance camera, walking near a bus stop in the 1600 block of north Peoria Street at 2:23 a.m. Lashaya’s family believes she was abducted by sex traffickers. There have been sightings of her reported in the Colfax Avenue area of Aurora; witnesses stated that the girl resembling Lashaya was being drugged and was forced into prostitution.