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Brooke Harris Missing: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Brooke Harris is a 48-year-old El Dorado Hills, California woman who vanished after last being seen on Valentine’s Day. However, authorities now say they think that Harris might have left on her own volition.

Sheriff’s officials indicated that they have no reason to suspect foul play in the disappearance, as news accounts detail trouble in the past of Harris, who has worked as a registered nurse. El Dorado Hills is located near Sacramento.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Brooke Harris Was Captured on Security Cameras at a Casino But Hasn’t Been Seen Since

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The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office “is still looking for Brooke Harris,” the office reports. The last reported contact with Brooke was on February 14, 2019 in El Dorado Hills.

“Brooke was last seen on the evening of February 13 by her daughter and made a phone call from her cell phone to her husband on the morning of February 14th. Brooke’s cell phone was later found in her residence and there was no evidence of foul play at the home,” a statement from the sheriff’s office says.

“Security cameras at Red Hawk Casino observed Brooke, apparently alone, and her vehicle later that day, at around 4:30 PM. Brooke has not been in contact with any of her family. If you see Brooke, or know where she may be, please contact EDSO.”

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office described Brooke Harris as having a date of birth of 12/9/70. “Brooke is described as white female 5′ 6″ tall, approximately 140 pounds with blond hair and green eyes. Brooke’s vehicle is a 2015 gray Toyota Highlander (CA 7KDC011). If you have any information on Brooke’s whereabouts please contacted EDSO dispatch (530) 621-6600 X304,” the Sheriff’s Department wrote.

2. Sheriff’s Officials Later Said They Don’t Think a Crime Was Committed

On February 20, 2019, the Sheriff’s Department provided a further update that cast doubt on speculation that foul play was involved in Brooke Harris’s disappearance.

“This investigation is still active and we want to share some information with the community,” they wrote. “We have found no evidence of foul play and have found no evidence that any crime has been committed. We have investigated Brooke’s family and have found no evidence to suggest that anyone was involved in her disappearance. The family has been completely cooperative throughout this entire investigation.”

They added: “We have seen a number of comments regarding information which is not helpful in assisting us in locating Brooke. While this information is public record it is information that can be hurtful to the family members and the wellbeing of anyone involved. We ask that you think about what information you are sharing and what is the best way to help us locate a missing person. If you have information that you believe is important, please message us. Call us. Come down and talk to us. Spreading the information through the comment section, when there are hundreds of comments, is the least likely way to help us and most likely to cause unneeded stress to the family in an already difficult time.”

Concluded the Sheriff’s Department: “We know that everyone is curious about what has happened to Brooke. We are working every lead in order to answer those questions ourselves and at this time, we believe that Brooke left on her own volition. Please, keep an eye out for Brooke and her vehicle, and contact us directly if you have any information which can help us locate her.”

3. Harris, a Registered Nurse, Was Fired in 2014

A photo released by the Sheriff’s Department

The Sacramento Bee discovered trouble in Brooke Harris’s past, although it’s unclear whether it bears any relevancy to her disappearance. A registered nurse, she was “fired in 2014 and later surrendered her license,” the newspaper reported.

“Her license was reinstated by the state board less than a week before she disappeared,” according to the Bee.

The newspaper reported that Harris “was fired for admitting to drinking alcohol while working as a hospice nurse.” The newspaper further alleged that the accusations involved drinking vodka at work, which she allegedly explained as involving “severe anxiety about seeing her husband.”

The cause of that anxiety was not clear.

4. Brooke Harris Is Married to a Firefighter

A photo released by the Sheriff’s Department

Brooke Harris is married to a firefighter and registered nurse named Manny Harris, according to the Bee.

One woman on Facebook shared a missing person photo of Brooke Harris and wrote, “Please friends, take a look. I went to high school with Manny Harris and this is his wife Brooke. She’s been missing for 6 days. Please pray for them and please share!!”

On Facebook, Manny Harris’s profile picture is a photo of his wife, and his cover photo shows him with his wife and two children. He wrote that he is a fireman at Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, went to Clayton Valley High School, and lives in El Dorado Hills, California.

5. Brooke Harris Is a Mother Who Filled Her Facebook Page With Family Photos

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On Facebook, Brooke Harris filled her page with photos of her two daughters and her husband. With one photo of the four of them, she wrote, “Glad we got a good pic cuz an hour later I lost my lunch on the curvy mountain road. Manny barely pulled over in time! 😳 Doubt the kids will make that trip with me again!🙄 #makingmemories.”

She shared a photo of a flag and wrote, “The green stripe is for Veterans. The red is for firefighters. The blue is for law enforcement.”

Her Facebook page is all about smiles and family, and nothing appears amiss.

Brooke Cergol, Gabby Sartori lead Mount Sinai to Suffolk Class A title

Gabby Sartori wanted to leave no doubt.

She squared to the basket from the center-court logo with time winding down in the first half and unleashed a buzzer-beating three-pointer off the glass, putting the Mount Sinai girls basketball team ahead by 20 heading into halftime.

The No. 5 Mustangs rode that wave of momentum through the rest of Wednesday night’s game and earned a 71-44 win over No. 6 Westhampton in the Suffolk Class A championship at Centereach.

“It’s just a statement,” said Sartori, who had 18 points. “That shot, it got me going. It got us going. Anything to rally the troops.”

Mount Sinai will play in the Suffolk small schools championship against Pierson/Bridgehampton/Shelter Island on Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Whitman. The Mustangs also punched their ticket to the Long Island Class A championship game on March 9 at Farmingdale State.

Brooke Cergol had 26 points, and Margaret Kopceinski had 14 points off the bench. Kopceinski entered to shoot free throws for Sartori early in the second quarter after she fell hard driving to the basket.

Kopceinski made both attempts, then she knocked down three-pointers on consecutive possessions, extending the lead to 29-11. She made four three-pointers, the last of which put Mount Sinai (20-3) ahead 60-30.

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“I haven’t been shooting well, so for me to actually get back in the game and shoot well was really nice,” Kopceinski said.

Westhampton led 8-6 after Olivia Rongo’s short jumper, but that was the last time the Hurricanes held an advantage. Even as Isabelle Smith (22 points) pushed the pace for Westhampton (17-6), the Mustangs continued to shoot at a high percentage.

The lead steadily climbed, as Mount Sinai sought to avenge its loss in last year’s county final as the undefeated No. 1 seed.

“We came in with just a different attitude,” Cergol said. “We came in knowing what we had to do. Our coaches prepared us so well. We came into this game screaming excited.”

Clutching the gold county champion plaque, Cergol was ecstatic.

“To finally hold this, it’s insane,” she said. “This is all we wanted for the last year.”

Sartori ensured it’d happen and emphasized how everything seemed to go the Mustangs’ way with her dagger at the halftime buzzer. Though there was still a half to play, that proved to Kopceinski that Mount Sinai had the game in the bag.

Said Kopceinski: “That shot just put it overboard.”

Kenny DeJohn joined Newsday's high school sports department in 2015 and has covered multiple state championships, Division I athletes and Long Island's top high school programs. He also covers Stony Brook University women's lacrosse.

Friends of Brooke Skylar Richardson, Accused of Killing Her Newborn, Say She Doesn't Deserve Vilification

Ashley says her job now, as a friend, is to make life “as normal as possible.” Sometimes they still hang out in favorite places like restaurants, ice cream parlors, and the mall. They bonded over “countless hours of videos on YouTube on makeup” and playing with Skylar’s makeup collection, Ashley says.

“Her whole life is chaos right now, so I hope that our friendship — me, Annie, and McKenzie — can be an escape for her,” she says. “I want her to get her life back. She was supposed to be a college student this year. She was so excited about changing her major, finding a roommate — you know, stuff that every kid wants.”

So far, Skylar has had no time to mourn the loss of her child, her friends say. “We have all been focused on the case that we have not been able to grieve the loss of the baby,” Annie says. “From the moment Skylar saw her daughter, who she named Annabelle, she thought she was beautiful, she wanted her, she held her and loved her.”

Another friend, Jessica, 19, met Skylar in first grade and tells Teen Vogue that she thinks of her as her “first friend.” She doesn’t believe the charges “make sense” because Skylar used to work with children with special needs, she says. Sheba, 20, another friend who has known Skylar since first grade, was on homecoming court with her twice. She tells Teen Vogue that she credits Skylar with helping to save her life.

Sheba says she was bullied in school, often for her weight. One day, the bullying reached ugly, dangerous levels and Sheba says she’d had enough. She decided to go home and take her own life, but Skylar interceded.

“I [said things like ‘I] am just ready to die,’ ‘I don’t want to live anymore,’ ‘I am ugly,’ and ‘I am annoying to people,’” Sheba says. “And Skylar was like, ‘Sheba, you are not annoying, you are the most beautiful person and you have such a good heart and such a good soul.’ She...kind of talked me down from basically suicide.”

Kiley, 18, is another friend speaking out in Skylar’s defense. They’ve known each other since middle school, Kiley tells Teen Vogue, and she is upset by the stalkers and online cruelty. “If I was ever having problems — with anything — she would just be there for me, hear me talk about it forever, and she would be on my side, no matter what…. It’s really concerning for me that these people just make it a priority to harass Skylar and, like, do whatever they can to try to make her and her family’s lives miserable.”

“When the news broke, I tweeted that Carlisle is such a close ‘family’ until someone gets put in the spotlight and everyone has something new to talk about — it’s pathetic,” she says. “It’s just not how a ‘family’ is supposed to act — and I say that because people support the football team and have all this pride for the village we live in and act like it’s so awesome, then all of a sudden it’s the same people who are like, ‘Oh, my gosh, Skylar is a baby killer, and she deserves to go to prison forever.’”

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