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Police Seeking Missing Mother and Daughter

August 22, 2025 at 5:08 am tdemartini
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Hawai‘i Island police are requesting public assistance in locating 50-year-old Shawndell Cortez and her 7-year-old daughter Amina Bivings who were reported missing. The pair was last seen in Kailua-Kona on Sunday, August 3.

Cortez, who is considered endangered due to a medical condition, is described as Filipino, 5 feet tall, 180 pounds, with a light brown complexion, long straight blonde hair, and brown eyes. She has a multicolored rose tattoo on the left side of her chest, a faded black cross on her left middle finger, and the name “Daniel J” tattooed across her left hand.

Bivings is described as Puerto Rican, African American, and Filipino. She is 4 feet tall, 50 pounds, with a medium brown complexion, curly light brown hair with blonde tips, and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Hawai‘i County Police Department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.

 

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Tags: Kailua-Kona, missing persons, police search
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