A dispatcher is speaking out about a frantic search for a young girl abducted in southeast Ohio that ended in a confrontation that left her father dead.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 7-year-old missing from Jefferson County in northeastern Ohio. Oaklynn Alexander was last seen around 3 p.m. Monday on Midway Street in the city of Empire wearing a gray hoodie, black pants and white shoes. Authorities said she is 4 feet tall and weighs 55 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

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