LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Within two days of the kidnapping of a 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith from Lansing, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a $25,000 reward for tips about how to find her at a press conference on Tuesday. 

The FBI released the following information regarding the kidnapping that prompted an amber alert last weekend. 

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“Wynter, along with her 1-year-old brother was in their apartment when her mother was assaulted by an ex-boyfriend,” the FBI Missing Person report said. “Wynter’s brother was found unharmed inside the apartment when law enforcement arrived.  Wynter was not in the apartment or the stolen car and has not been located.” 

She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with rainbows on it and has braided shoulder length hair according to authorities.  The African American toddler is also roughly two feet tall, has brown eyes, and is between 25 to 30 pounds, the FBI report said. 

At the conference, Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee promised that his agency and other partners would continue in their search efforts spanning Lansing to Detroit. 

“We will not give up,” he said. “We want Wynter home with her family.” 

The man accused of stabbing her mother, Rashad Trice, was arrested earlier on Monday according to authorities, who also said that he and Wynter’s mother had a relationship in the past. 

The mother was hospitalized after receiving several stab wounds and she was recently released according to Sosebee.

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Investigators also believe that they’ve managed to identify the driving route that Trice took which stretched from heading eastbound on Interstate 96 from the Capitol into Detroit and eventually exiting at St. Clair Shores.  FBI Detroit released a map detailing the route that was taken on Monday morning. 

Authorities are also urging anyone with information about Wynter Cole-Smith’s whereabouts to call the FBI tip line at 1 (800) CALL-FBI or go to tips.fbi.gov.

“There are many agencies and multiple teams working together in Lansing, in Detroit and everywhere in between to follow up on all and every new piece of information that we get,” Sosebee said. 

The Lansing Chief also warned against spreading misinformation regarding the investigation, also stating that “if anybody has knowledge of Wynter’s whereabouts and chooses not to come forward by choice, you will be charged appropriately.”