UPDATE: Sasha Ahenakew, the 14-year-old girl reported missing earlier today, has been located and is safe
Original story:
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is asking for the public’s help to find a missing teen on Vancouver’s West Side.
14-year-old Sasha Ahenakew was last seen at her family home near West 16th Avenue and MacDonald at 1am on Sunday, August 31st.
“She has not been seen or heard from since,” says the VPD.
Sasha is 5 feet tall, weighs 100 pounds, and has long, curly dark brown hair. At the time of her disappearance, she’s believed to have been wearing a black sweater with a hood, black or blue baggy jeans, white Nike sneakers with a green Nike symbol, and she may be carrying a black “Fjallraven Kanken” backpack.
#VPDNews: Vancouver Police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 14-year-old girl last seen on Vancouver’s West Side.
Sasha Ahenakew was last seen at her family home near West 16th Avenue and MacDonald at 1 a.m. on August 31. She has not been seen or heard from… pic.twitter.com/w4ppZMhWhp
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) September 3, 2025
“This type of behaviour is out of character for Sasha,” says Cst. Tania Visintin. “Her family is extremely worried for her well-being and her mother has travelled to Vancouver from Saskatchewan to assist VPD with the investigation.”
Police add that she is “familiar with Vancouver’s transit system and will frequent downtown Vancouver, Granville Island, and the Hillcrest Community Centre”.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts are asked to call 911 immediately.