01/18/2023
A Family wants answers after Alexis Ware, a then 29-year-old woman last seen at a 7-Eleven gas station off Highway 29 in , South Carolina, January 30, 2022, is still missing.
Alberta Gray-Simpkins, ’s mother, said that the last weekend in January 2022, Alexis and the family had been hanging out, but something was bothering Alexis. Alberta said Alexis was crying about her upcoming 30th birthday and said Alexis didn’t feel like she would make it to 30. Alberta said she thought that was strange because her daughter always does it big for her birthday, and that year, she didn’t plan anything or shop like she normally would for it.
Late Saturday night, January 29, 2022, Alberta said Alexis talked about being followed. “She cried but wouldn’t tell me what was going on. It’s like she felt something was going to happen to her,” Alberta said. The next day, Sunday, January 30, 2022, Alexis left the house around noon. Alberta said she video-called her daughter around 3 pm to check on her, and Alexis was lying in bed taking a nap.
A few hours later, after the video chat with Alberta and Alexis, Alberta said she received a phone call from Alexis's youngest child’s father, TJ Patterson, around 7:30 pm. TJ asked Alberta if she had heard from Alexis because they had met at the 7-Eleven gas station and she had given him their son and Alexis other child, her daughter. Alberta said TJ told her the way she left the gas station concerned him.
Alexis planned to follow her child’s father to his mother's house, but after TJ and Alexis pulled out of the gas station, Alexis shot around TJ at high speeds and made a sharp right at a red light. TJ said he tried calling Alexis, but she didn’t answer, and that’s when he called Alberta. Alberta said she also tried calling her daughter, and she didn’t get an answer either.
The family didn’t hear from Alexis on Monday, January 31, so the next day, Tuesday, Feb. 1, Alberta’s sister filed a missing police report. Camera footage from the gas station showed no scuffle between TJ and Alexis. The camera showed them leaving, going in the same direction, and Alexis going around TJ at a high rate of speed.
Days later, Alexis's red Honda Accord was found in , 30 miles south of Anderson with all of her belongings inside.
Alexis Ware is still MISSING!