Police executed a search warrant at the Hampton Court Apartments where Ashley Elkins’ ex-boyfriend lives. Elkins, a 30-year-old hairstylist and mom of 2, was reported missing by her family members on Friday, January 3.
Elkins, who works out of her home, went missing after her ex-boyfriend, Deandre Booker, made a fake hair appointment.
The Warren and Roseville Police Departments found Elkins’s car at the complex. They also seized a dumpster on the property.
Police suspect that foul play occurred at Booker’s Roseville apartment.
Police say that the evidence seized from the apartment, Elkins’ car, and the dumpster will be analyzed by the Michigan State Police Department.
Police have executed nearly 20 search warrants, and conducted numerous interviews with friends and family.
According to family members, Elkins left her Warren home on Knox Avenue around 8:30 a.m. to run errands on Jan. 2.
Elkins’s mother, Monika Elkins, FaceTimed Elkins, but she didn’t answer or call back. Monika said Elkins used to date Booker, who hasn’t been seen in days either.
Elkins’s sisters used a phone app to ping her last location. The last place Elkins’s phone pinged was at Booker’s apartment complex in Roseville.
Elkins’s family fears Booker may have abducted her.
“We knew that he had been trying to reach out to her, whether to get back with her, I don’t know,” her uncle, Maurice Morton, told 7 News Detroit.
The family said Booker made a fake hair appointment and stopped by her apartment. “The day he came to (Ashley’s) house, he act like he was a client and he made a (fake) appointment with her. She was expecting a client. It was him, and (her sisters) were in the house quiet,” Monika Elkins recalled.
“She told (her sisters) to be quiet. He knocked on the front door and the side door and he left. And here, it’s two days later and she’s gone.”
“She has not been in touch with anyone. We’re talking about a mother of two children, who are 10 and 7 years old, who loves her children, loves her family,” Morton explained.
Ashley Elkins is a Black female with light freckles, a piercing on the right cheek and 2 nose rings on the right side. She is 5-foot-3 and weighs 160 pounds.
If you have information about Ashley Elkins, call Warren police detectives at 586-574-4784.
