The AMBER Alert was born in 1996 when local media teamed up with local police to develop an early warning system to find abducted children following the abduction and brutal murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, of Arlington.
An Amber Alert issued Friday for a missing 12-year-old girl near San Antonio has been discontinued.
The girl had last been seen in the 9600 block of Schaefer Road in Converse, about 20 miles northeast of San Antonio. The exact location was not given.
It was believed that the girl was with 28-year-old Maria Rodriguez Pomales. The relationship between the two was not provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Pomales was described as 5-feet-tall, 120 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
No other information was provided Saturday about the Amber Alert or the circumstances surrounding its discontinuation.
