Police search for Wynter Cole-Smith along Rashad Trice route – Cops in Michigan are holding out hope that the route a kidnapping suspect took may hold clues to the whereabouts of the missing 2-year-old girl he allegedly had with him.
Alleged kidnapper Rashad Trice, 26, is believed to have taken Wynter Cole-Smith after assaulting the girl’s mother — his ex-girlfriend — in Lansing on Sunday night. He was arrested early morning Monday in the city of St. Clair Shores, which is just northeast of Detroit and about 90 miles east of Lansing.
Wynter Cole-Smith went missing late July 2, 2023, when her mother’s ex-boyfriend, Rashad Trice, kidnapped her, cops said. (Images: Lansing Police Department)Police search for Wynter Cole-Smith along Rashad Trice route
St. Clair Shores cops have said that they spotted Trice while driving and he tried to flee, but he crashed into a police vehicle, injuring an officer.
But authorities did not find Wynter.
“This is the route we believe that Rashad Trice may have taken with 2-year-old Wynter Smith in the car the night of July 2nd,” cops said in a Facebook post. (Lansing police have written her last name as Smith, but the FBI has said it is Cole-Smith.)
Officers highlighted a route stretching from I-96 in the Lansing area east to I-94 in the Detroit area.
Police said on July 3, 2023, that they think Rashad Trice might have driven this route from the Lansing area to the Detroit area after kidnapping Wynter Cole-Smith. (Image: Lansing Police Department)
“If you are driving on this route tomorrow, we ask you to watch out for anything unusual along the way that could possibly lead us to Wynter,” said Lansing police. They ask people to report anything that catches attention, “even if it seems minor or inconsequential.”
