Surveillance video Tucson police released last week showing a group of people walking into the neighborhood of missing Tucson girl Isabel Mercedes Celis was taken on the wrong night, several hours after she had been reported missing, police disclosed today.
Police learned the video showed activity on the wrong night after talking to three of the five people shown in the grainy black-and-white footage walking in the area of Isabel’s home near East Broadway and South Craycroft Road, Lt. Fabian Pacheco said in an afternoon news conference today.
The video taken by a security camera at St. Joseph Catholic Church shows the group walking overnight April 21, hours after the search for Isabel had begun. Isabel was reported missing about 8 a.m. April 21.
Police now are working with the security company to collect video footage from overnight April 20, which will include the hours before Isabel was reported missing, Pacheco said.
Tucson police released the video last week saying they hoped the people in it had seen something that would help them find Isabel.
The mix-up is not a major setback in the investigation, Pacheco said at the news conference.
He did not know how long it would be before police had video from the correct night.
