SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento family is still looking for answers after the search for missing children continues.
Family and friends of Angelica Bravo are hoping one tip can lead to the safe return of Bravo’s children after they went missing when Sacramento Police found her dead.
“Every time you see her smile, she lights up the room,” said Bravo’s former student. “She was such a beautiful light at the school.”
Candles lit up the Federico Beauty Institute in north Natomas where Bravo used to be an instructor, but the loss leaves a darkness of grief.
“Her name just says it all Angelic, Angel,” said Ms. Kay, who worked with Bravo. “That is what she was.”
Approaching one week, family and friends remember Bravo, who was found dead in her home earlier this week.
“We are so in shocked right now,” said Marisa Beltran, Bravo’s aunt. "It is like, it has hit, but it is just like, Oh, my goodness.”
Those close to Bravo say her impact on them was profound.
“I felt like I was one of her students when it came to her putting on the demo,” said Kay. “I was there taking notes. She was a bomb hairstylist, bomb colorist, bomb person and my mom all together.”
Sacramento police say Bravo’s two children, four-year-old Athena Lee, and two-year-old Mateo Lee, are believed to have left with the area with their father, Camron Lee.
Investigators say Camron possibly dropped the kids off somewhere in Southern California before he crossed the border into Mexico. Now the California Highway Patrol has issued an Endangered Missing Advisory on behalf of the children.
“We have been in constant communication with our law enforcement partners federal, local, and state. All the way from here down to the border,” said Officer Anthony Gamble with the Sacramento Police Department.
The family says they are not sure what caused Bravo’s death, but they say the couple had a tumultuous relationship.
“She just used to always tell me how she knows that this day will come,” said Ms. Kay. “Just knowing that this day came, it is just very unbelievable.”
Loved ones praying for the safe return of the kids.
“We just hope they are safe and sound right now," said Beltran. "We already lost Angelica; we need those babies back.”
If you have any information about where the kids might be, a tip line has been set, 916-808-0560.
