Iowa City police seeking missing teen

UPDATE: AURORA HAS BEEN SAFELY LOCATED. 

Edited release
05/24/24

The Iowa City Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing teen.

13-year-old Aurora Starbuckwas last seen leaving Northwest Junior High on a school bus at 3:37 p.m. Wednesday, and is believed to have arrived at her normal bus stop on Benton Street.

Aurora is 4’8″, 80 pounds, with dirty blonde hair, and a nose ring. She was last seen wearing a brown shirt, light blue bell bottom pants, pink Nike shoes and a blue backpack with a red buckle.

Anyone with information on Aurora’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Joint Emergency Communications Center at 319-356-6800.