Search for Missing Northern California Girl Called Off on Sonoma County Coast

This undated photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office shows Pearl Pinson. Authorities are hoping to find the missing teenage girl alive as they frantically search a wide swath of California for her Friday, May 27, 2016, a day after the man suspected of abducting her died in a shootout with police. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office via AP

SAN FRANCISCO—Authorities called off a search along a Northern California creek for a teenager who was last seen being abducted by an armed acquaintance after investigators found no signs of the girl.

Authorities have no further plans to look for 15-year-old Pearl Pinson in the Willow Creek area of Sonoma Coast State Park, the Solano County Sherriff’s Office said in a statement.

“Investigators are continuing to follow up on leads in this case and continue to have hope we will find and bring Pearl home,” the statement said Saturday.

Pinson was abducted Wednesday morning as she walked to school. A witness reported seeing a girl with a bleeding face screaming for help as a man armed with a handgun dragged her across a freeway overpass in Vallejo, about 25 miles east of San Francisco. Blood and Pinson’s cellphone were found on the ground.

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