Friends and family of a 23-year-old Chatsworth woman who went missing last week are spreading the word about her sudden disappearance, which they worry is related to her mental health struggles after a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Hadyne Wilson was last seen around 2 p.m. Sept. 29 riding a silver scooter near the Vons grocery store at 20440 Devonshire St. She is described as a 5-foot-8, light-skinned Black woman with braided hair. She was last seen wearing all black — pants, a T-shirt, a hoodie and a jacket — and wearing earbuds, her family says.
Her mother, Cyndee Wilson, said Hadyne suffers from COVID-related psychosis, which affects a fraction of those with the coronavirus and “kind of looks like schizophrenia.”
Friends and relatives became worried when they hadn’t heard from Hadyne Wilson for a few days last week, and they began plastering the area near her Chatsworth home with posters.
A man called to report that he had seen Wilson on her scooter, but when her mother went to the LAPD’s Devonshire station to file a missing person’s report Saturday, she said, she was told that no detectives were on duty to start looking into her daughter’s disappearance.
When she followed up Monday, she was told that unless there was something outwardly suspicious about her daughter’s disappearance, police couldn’t do much to help because she was an adult, Cyndee Wilson said.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit tweeted to ask the public for help, urging anyone with information about Wilson’s whereabouts to contact investigators at (213) 996-1800 or call (877) 527-3247 after hours.
Cyndee Wilson said her daughter had struggled with her mental health for months after getting sick with COVID-19.
Recent research has led to better understanding of COVID-19’s lingering effects on the brain. As the pandemic spread, some patients began reporting a host of cognitive and psychiatric issues such as memory lapses. A smaller number developed…