Household of three Lacking in Arizona after Leaving Grand Canyon: Report

A household of three are all lacking after touring from the Grand Canyon amid excessive winter storms earlier this month, police have stated.

On Wednesday, March 19,  the Coconino County Sheriff’s Workplace shared a lacking individuals flyer on their Fb web page to hunt extra details about the whereabouts of Jiyeon Lee, 23, Taehee Kim, 69, and Junghee Kim, 64.

Per the publish, the three had been final seen touring from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas on March 13. The Grand Canyon Nationwide Park shared on the time that winter storms had led to “hazardous circumstances” within the space.

PEOPLE has contacted the Grand Canyon Nationwide Park for remark.

Officers say the people had been driving in a 2024 white BMW rental automobile with a California license plate variety of 9KHN768.

The report used automobile GPS on the household’s rental automobile to indicate that it was final recorded on Interstate 40 on March 13.

“Regulation enforcement is conscious of the massive multi-vehicle accident that occurred on I40 on at the present time, nevertheless, it’s not recognized if this automobile was concerned within the accident,” the report famous.

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On March 14, the Arizona Division of Public Security revealed in a press launch that two individuals had died after a collision involving 22 autos, together with 13 passenger autos on Interstate I40. 

“A complete of 36 drivers and occupants had been concerned within the incident, together with two fatalities and 16 injured individuals had been transported for medical care,” they wrote alongside a video of the aftermath, which was lined in ice and snow.

“These are the devastating outcomes of the weather-related deadly collision on Interstate 40 close to Williams yesterday, March 13, 2025,” officers continued. “Sadly, troopers are presently investigating one other lethal weather-related collision on I-40 close to Holbrook.”

In the meantime, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Workplace is asking anybody who has been in touch with the lacking household of three to contact since March 13 or is aware of their whereabouts to contact the division.