Seventeen-year-old Dajanell Colon was reported missing from Camden, New Jersey after she was last seen leaving her Parkside home on the 1400 block of Kaighn Avenue on December 12, 2023. At the time she was wearing a black jacket over a gray hoodie and dark-colored pants. She is described as a Black female with brown hair and brown eyes, unusually tall at between six feet and six feet three inches, and weighing between 235 and 260 pounds.

Authorities say Dajanell is known to frequent the Kensington area of Philadelphia, which expanded the search beyond Camden. This was not her first disappearance; she had been reported missing from the same Kaighn Avenue home in October 2022 and from a different address in Fairview, Camden, in July 2023. The circumstances of her most recent departure have not been made public, and the Camden County Police Department is asking anyone with information to contact their tip line.

Does anyone in Camden or Kensington have information about Dajanell’s whereabouts or where she might spend her time?