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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles police late Monday re-issued an "Amber Alert" in the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl
from a city park about 24 hours earlier.
Police issued the first "Amber Alert" for Jessica Cortez when they suspected she had been abducted from Echo Park on Sunday. Then
officers reclassified the disappearance as a missing child case, believing that she had drowned in the park's lake.
While divers were searching the lake for her body, police interviewed a witness who told them Jessica left the park with a man
described as dark-complexioned. That information prompted police to again classify the case as a possible abduction.
Shur said the witness described the man last seen with Jessica as 20 to 25 years old, between 5-feet-8 and 6-feet tall, 160 to 180
pounds, wearing blue shorts and a white T-shirt, with a cross tattoo on his lower left leg. The man had a brown Chihuahua, according to
Shur.