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Summary based on 5 sources
Fourteen-year-old female Gianna Emra was reported in online missing-person listings as missing from Lakewood, Washington, with a listed missing date of March 21, 2026. The public notice circulated with her age as 14 and directed anyone with information to contact the Lakewood Police Department in Washington at 1-253-830-5000, placing the case in Pierce County and framing it as a matter for local law enforcement follow-up. The publicly available details about the circumstances of that date are limited: the online notice identifies Gianna by name, age, date, and city, but does not provide a detailed account of where in Lakewood she was last seen, who last had contact with her, what she may have been wearing, or whether investigators believed she might still be in the local area.

The available online footprint around Gianna’s name also shows why this case must be handled carefully and compassionately. Public records and reports indicate that Gianna Emra had appeared in earlier missing-child coverage before the Lakewood notice. In February 2024, official reporting from the City of Battle Ground stated that 12-year-old Gianna Emra of Battle Ground had been reported as a runaway after she was last seen by her guardian at Vancouver Mall on February 11, 2024; officers entered her as a missing person and began an investigation after the report was received on February 13. That earlier case was resolved when Vancouver Police located her shortly after 1:00 p.m. on February 19, 2024, although officials said the details of where she had been during that period were unknown.

Other online references from 2024 described additional concern for Gianna after she reportedly did not return to a Spokane Valley group home after school, with deputies asking the public for help and noting that Vancouver police had listed her as a missing juvenile runaway since March of that year. That report described her as approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall and 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and asked anyone with information to contact Crime Check with the relevant case reference. Those earlier public reports do not explain the later March 21, 2026 Lakewood listing, but they show a pattern of public concern for Gianna’s safety over time and underscore that each public appeal represented a young teenager whose whereabouts mattered urgently to her family, caregivers, investigators, and community.

For the March 21, 2026 Lakewood case specifically, the public online record remains brief. The strongest available notice states that Gianna Emra, age 14, was missing from Lakewood, Washington, and that information should be directed to the Lakewood Police Department. A separate child-protection website search result in English stated that there was “currently no missing child reported by that name,” while a Spanish-language page indexed online described an alert for Gianna Emra missing since March 21, 2026 from Lakewood, Washington, creating an incomplete and somewhat inconsistent public record. Because of that inconsistency, the most responsible overview is that Gianna’s March 2026 Lakewood listing appears in online missing-person circulation with limited supporting details, no publicly confirmed narrative of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, and no official publicly available resolution located in the sources reviewed; the case overview is that a 14-year-old girl named Gianna Emra was listed as missing from Lakewood, Washington, on March 21, 2026, with the Lakewood Police Department identified as the point of contact for information.

Last Seen: Mar 21, 2026