Police ask for help finding Freeport woman, 24

Nassau County police are asking for information that could help locate a Freeport woman who has been missing since Oct. 24.

Lakeenya Steele, 24, was last seen at her friend's home in Freeport that afternoon, police said.

She is described as black, 5-feet-6 and 140 pounds.

"I really don't know where she went," said her grandmother, Clara Foster, 65, who lives with Steele.

Last Sunday, Steele came home from church and changed her clothes, Foster said. She took her 22-month-old daughter in a cab to her mother's home in Roosevelt to drop off the baby. She then took another cab to her friend's house, but had stopped at a store to buy a jacket, Foster said.

At the friend's house, she changed into the newly purchased white jacket and brown boots. From there, she was supposed to have dinner with friends in Baldwin, Foster said. Steele was expected to pick up her daughter from her mother's house at 9 p.m. but hasn't been seen since leaving Freeport.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS.