Overview
- Antoinette Forbes, 53, was last seen at her Washington, D.C. home on Sept. 4 and has been classified by police as a critically missing person.
- Friends who checked her house over the Labor Day weekend found her two phones, wallet, laptop, car and dog inside and an unlocked front door, which family members say makes it unlikely she left voluntarily.
- The Metropolitan Police Department says the investigation is active and asks anyone with information to call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.
- Her ex‑boyfriend and the father of her child, Russell Ashford, was taken into custody in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on a Montgomery County warrant this week for an alleged probation violation and court records show he was previously convicted of severely beating Forbes.
- Family, colleagues and community volunteers have held vigils, circulated flyers and urged the public to share doorbell or dashcam footage from the Sept. 4 weekend because any new evidence could prompt criminal charges or clarify Forbes’s whereabouts.