Woman who went missing in Freeport still sought

Detectives from the missing persons squad are looking for a Nassau County woman last seen at her friend's home in Freeport more than two weeks ago.

Lakeenya Steele, 24, was last seen at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 24, Nassau County police said. Police released a photograph of the missing woman, described as black, 5-feet-6 and 140 pounds, on Monday.

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

On Oct. 24, 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.

With Gary Dymski