© NBC NewsKelli Bordeaux, a soldier who recently joined the army, has been missing since Saturday from Fort Bragg, NC. She was last seen leaving a local bar.
Authorities are searching for a 23-year-old Army soldier who was last seen early Saturday morning leaving a bar in North Carolina.
PFC Kelli Bordeaux didn't turn up to her post at Fort Bragg on Monday, prompting Army officials to report her missing, NBC News reported.
Bordeaux was last spotted leaving a bar, Froggy Bottoms, in nearby Fayetteville about 1:30 am on Saturday. A bar employee gave her a ride home, but he is not considered a suspect, a military official told NBC.
Bordeaux, a health services specialist originally from St. Cloud in Central Florida, has been married for two years but is estranged from her husband, Mike, the official said.
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"Supposedly when the guy that was giving her a ride home, was taking her to her apartment, he got to her apartment and something spooked her so ... she said, 'No, no, no just let me out here,' instead of taking her like around the corner to her apartment," her mother, Johnna Henson, told
wptv.com. "I don't understand that."
An Army investigator told wptv.com that, at some point, two text messages were sent from Bordeaux's phone, including one that said she got home safely.
"Being a soldier to Kelli is something she wouldn't jeopardize for anything. Missing work is something that is not in character for Kelli," her sister, Olivia Cox, told reporters. Asked how Mike Bordeaux was doing, she said:"Mike is holding up the best he can with his wife missing."