MISSING PERSON LAFAYETTE LA

This is the press release for our missing friend Mickey Shunick

Dateline Lafayette, LA 7:00 PM May 20, 2012:

Please be advised that 21-year old female Michaela (AKA Mickey) Shunick was reported missing Saturday May 19th at approximately 2:00 AM. She was last seen leaving Ryan Street (near downtown Lafayette) at 1:45 am on a black Schwinn Madison fixed gear bicycle with glittery gold handlebars. Mickey was heading towards her home on Governor Miro Drive (near Ambassador Caffery /Congress intersection). She is an avid cyclist and made this trip regularly on bike.

Mickey is a Caucasian female with shoulder-length white blonde curly hair, blue eyes, and is approximately 5’1” and 115 pounds. She has a small tattoo of a bicycle on her right outer ankle and a nose ring on her left nostril. She was last seen wearing a pastel striped shirt, light wash denim skinny jeans, and silver ankle boots. She would have been carrying a light brown leather backpack, a black and yellow Vera Bradley wallet, a black Verizon slider phone (which has been turned off), and a small pink container of mace.

Police in the Lafayette area encourage anyone with any information regarding Mickey’s whereabouts to please come forward. Search efforts are underway and there has yet to be any sign of either Mickey or her bicycle.

A reward of $10,000 is offered for any information leading to the safe return of Mickey Shunick.

As more information becomes available, an update will be issued. For media questions or to report any information, please contact the Lafayette Police Department at 337-291-8600 or send an email to [e-mail]