Clayton County 16-year-old girl reported missing after leaving home

Denise Dianne Felton (Clayton County Police Department)

Clayton County police need your help finding a runaway teenager who has been missing for over a day.

Officers are desperately searching for 16-year-old Denise Dianne Felton.

According to investigators, Felton has been missing after leaving her family's home on the 1000 block of Woodcock Street in Jonesboro around 3 a.m. on Sunday. Police say that Felton has been diagnosed with depression.

Officials described the missing teenager as being 5-feet-2-inches tall with a weight of 216 pounds. She has red hair worn in an afro puff ponytail and brown eyes.

Felton was last seen wearing a green Nike shirt and off-white Nike pants.

If you have any information about where Denise Dianne Felton could be, please call the Clayton County Police Department at
(770) 477-3550.

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