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Family pleads for help and answers as the search intensifies for missing St. Louis woman

This is the second time in the last few days family and friends have conducted a search to locate the mother of four.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis family is pleading for answers a week after the disappearance of their daughter.

Marquisha Williams was last seen a week ago in north St. Louis with a man named Trenton Ivy. Officers found and arrested Ivy in Wisconsin Friday on unrelated charges.

"Please, anybody that you know that can help us. Please help us, please help us," Terrencee Chavis said. “Every police agency, state troopers, county (and) city."

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Marquisha Williams

"We love her, miss her, her kids miss her! They most definitely miss her. My grandbaby needs his mom. He's not even 2 years old yet," Norvette Chavis said.

This is the second time in the last few days that Williams's mother Norvette Chavis and step-father Terrencee have searched with the help of volunteers to locate the mother of four.

They're combing through wooden areas and back roads of Staunton, Illinois.

Police said Williams was seen with Ivy in the area of Cook and North Spring Avenue In St. Louis.

Ivy was arrested Friday near Racine, Wisconsin, on unrelated charges of using a dangerous weapon, resisting an officer and fleeing from an officer. 

"He is being held on local charges, and there is not an open warrant out for him right now," according to the Racine County Sheriff's Office. 

St. Louis County police said they came here to Staunton on Sunday to search for Williams, but their efforts came up empty.

They said they believed she may have been in this area before she disappeared.

"We know the police said they started their search right here in this area," Chavis said.

Meanwhile, police said they cannot share any more specific information about the investigation. They have not said if Ivy is a person of interest or suspect in the disappearance of Williams.

A family friend, Crystal Campbell, also joined the search.

"We just want to bring her home, so the family can have some closure," Campbell.

Coffee Wright with the Missing Persons Taskforce Headquarters Inc. wants more efforts put in place to find missing Black women like Williams.

"We never have enough help when it comes to Black women coming up missing. A lot of times it's taken as they ran away or they just left opposed to the seriousness of it. Every day counts, every hour counts," Wright said.

Chavis and his family are calling on everyone to help with the search.

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