Authorities searching for 14-year-old runaway girl

Seymour police and Bartholomew County deputies are trying to find a 14-year-old girl reported as a runaway. The departments report that Karen Fernandez Euxeda was last seen at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of North Blish Street in Seymour.

She is 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, police said. Bartholomew County Sheriff Matt Myers says she has friends who may reside at Hilltop Mobile Home Park in Bartholomew County. It is also believed that she may be in the company of a 35-year-old Hispanic male living in the Candlelight Mobile Home Park area.

Other juveniles have told police that she may have cut her hair, as a disguise, Myers said.

Anyone with information should call the Seymour Police Department at 812-522-1234 or the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department at 812-565-5926