A Jeep convoy will be driving across Kamloops on Friday night, hoping to bring awareness to Shannon White’s disappearance.
Friend of Shannon, Kloee Davies, says dozens of Jeeps will start in Aberdeen at 6 p.m. on Friday night, and driving across town to Batchelor Heights.
“There’s like a Jeep club that she was part of, a smaller group of people that’s very, very tight knit. And it’s basically like a family. It’s way beyond just anything you normally would have, as a Jeep club. It’s like family,” Davies says.
“She is just somebody that, she can’t be missing. She needs to be found. She’s basically, I call her, the heart of the Jeep community. I wish I could explain everything to you in five minutes but it doesn’t work that way. Basically we really, really, really, really need her back.”
Davies says Jeeps taking part will have posters with Shannon’s face. She says she hopes someone may see the convoy and “catch on” to the case if they haven’t already, saying perhaps someone who knows something may see the posters and think to reach out to authorities.
Like one of Shannon’s landlords told NL News on Monday, Davies says it is “shocking to everybody” and completely unusual that Shannon would be missing. Davies says Shannon “would never leave like this without telling someone,” and would never leave her dog behind either.
Shannon left home in her Jeep on the morning of Nov. 1, at about 8 a.m., presumably on her way to work. Her Jeep was found in downtown Kamloops the following afternoon, on Nicola Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, but she remains missing.
The RCMP major crime unit is now investigating her disappearance.
White is described as being a white woman with blond hair and green eyes, standing five-foot-five and weighing 180 pounds.
“There is a chance she could have left the city before her vehicle was located,” Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Dave Marshall said on Monday. “If you have seen someone you think may be Shannon, don’t dismiss it; contact police as soon as possible.”
Police are also asking people to review dashcam and surveillance footage from Nov. 1-2 if they were in Sahali or downtown Kamloops those days, in case Shannon or her Jeep may have passed by.
Mounties also say a pink flower on Shannon’s spare tire on her Jeep was missing when the vehicle was found. Police ask anyone who might know where that flower is to reach out.
Meanwhile, friends of Shannon’s have started a GoFundMe page online to raise money for travel for Shannon’s father, to continue paying her rent and to pay for advertising in news media, and potentially billboards, canvassing for information.
