Particle.news
Download on the App Store

San Francisco Police Search for Missing 21-Year-Old British Tourist

Family says airport video shows her meeting a man with flowers.

Overview

  • Katherine Esther Gamboa Kerwood, who landed at San Francisco International Airport on March 31, sent her last text to relatives on Friday, April 3.
  • She told her family she was staying at a Sacramento hostel, but staff later said she never checked in.
  • Her father says SFO security footage shows her greeted by a man carrying flowers, identified by relatives only as David who had met her in the U.K.
  • Police entered her details into California’s statewide alert system after the case was reported in San Francisco and to U.K. authorities.
  • Relatives have asked anyone with information to contact police as her scheduled return flight to London is on Wednesday, April 8.