09/23/2022
Brittany was last seen when her aunt dropped her off at her father's home on McCovery Road in Mobile, Alabama at 9:00 a.m. on June 14, 2012, for what was supposed to be a two-day visit. Her mother, Tiana Hogue, was expecting Brittany to return home on June 18th, but she never arrived. Initially, Tiana didn’t think anything was wrong, since she was with her father.
By June 20th, however, Tiana began to worry when Demetric texted her to say he would have Brittany home in an hour, and three hours later she still hadn’t returned. Tiana attempted to call Demetric, but instead of answering, he responded with another text saying they were at a wedding party and would be there shortly. After that, Demetric stopped communicating with Tiana.
At this point, Tiana started to become seriously concerned for Brittany’s safety. After making several phone calls to members of Demetric’s family, Tiana - along with Demetric’s landlord and the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office - went to his home on McCovery Road Extension, only to find no one home and no evidence that Brittany had been there. Tiana immediately filed a missing person report with the Mobile Police Department.
Her father, Demetric L. Hooper, left Mobile immediately after her disappearance, and six weeks later a warrant was issued for his arrest. While searching for Brittany, Tiana discovered that Demetric had been implicated in a similar case in 2004, involving the abduction of one of his other children. On July 26, 2012, the Mobile Police Department issued an arrest warrant for Demetric for a Class-C felony charge of custodial interference.
An unidentified male contacted authorities and asserted that he had taken a bus with Demetric from Mississippi to Tennessee. He couldn’t be sure where Demetric went after that as they departed Tennessee on different buses, but he recalled Demetric saying something about going to Arkansas.
A little over a month later, US Marshals located Demetric at a mental health facility in Arkansas. Hooper suffers from schizophrenia and had sought treatment there. In the years prior to Brittany's disappearance, he had been hospitalized in Alabama several times for his mental illness and for drug problems. Brittany wasn't with her father when the police found him in Arkansas, and he was charged with felony custodial interference.
Authorities determined he traveled extensively throughout the southeastern United States after Brittany vanished. He took a bus from Memphis, Tennessee to Arkansas on July 7, three weeks after Brittany was last seen, and she wasn't with him then. Hooper was carrying Brittany's pink iPod, as well as knives and a rope, at the time of his arrest. He denied any involvement in his daughter's disappearance.
On August 8, 2012, the Mobile Police Department released photos obtained from Walmart surveillance cameras on Rangeline Rd showing Brittany, Demetric, and an unidentified woman on June 7, 2012. They asked for the public’s assistance in identifying the woman in the photos, but as of today, she has never been publicly identified. In August 2014, he pleaded guilty to custodial interference and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released in December 2016, after serving only four years. As of 2022, Brittany remains missing and her case is classified as an endangered missing person.
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https://uncovered.com/cases/brittany-robinson
https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/1197561/1/screen
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Bring-Brittany-Shante-Robinson-Home-968569326504075/
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