© NBC NewsAbudullahi "Abdi" Sharif
The body of an 18-year-old
who vanished in January after leaving a Target store was found in the Des Moines River in Iowa, police said Monday.
Abdullahi "Abdi" Sharif was last seen on security video on Jan. 17 leaving the Target store at Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines where he and his sister, Ifrah, had worked for about two years.
According to Ifrah, Sharif was off school because of bad weather that day and told his family he was called in for a shift at Target, so their mother drove him to the mall around noon.
They later discovered that Abdi was not on the schedule that day.
"It was not unusual for him to be there," Ifrah said at the time. "He loved working there and would sometimes just hang out. And the mall was in the same area, so he'd spend hours there."
Abdi later texted their mother and asked her to pick him up from Target at 9:30 p.m., but when she showed up, he wasn't there, and calls to his phone went straight to voicemail. The family reported him missing the next day.
Comment: It's notable that the US recently admitted footage it has shows what it believes to be UFOs, and Japan's Defense Ministry is preparing protocols of how to respond to UFOs that enter their territory.
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