TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued an Amber Alert for a Titusville teenager on Tuesday morning.

  • Amber Alert issued for Titusville teen 
  • Witness reported seeing 15-year-old girl abducted
  • Police plan to issue composite sketch of victim soon

The 15-year-old black girl has not been identified yet, but she is 5 foot 5 inches tall and unknown weight with dreads in her hair with one dread that is white.

She was wearing a green shirt and khaki pants.

She was last seen between 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday around the 1600th block of Barna Avenue in Titusville and "being pulled into a vehicle by an unknown dark-skinned person," the FDLE described.

The vehicle is either a Mazda- or Nissan-style charcoal SUV and there is an exterior tire on the back of the vehicle, described the FDLE. No license number was given out.

A mother and daughter were on their way to school when they called 911 because they say they witnessed the teen getting pulled into the SUV, authorities say.

Titusville resident Rebecca Henderson told Spectrum News her daughter was outside getting ready to get into their car when she witnessed a possible abduction.

“The girl was walking down the sidewalk right in front of her house when the vehicle came to a stop," Henderson said.

She said her daughter was not far away.

“They grabbed her by the top of hair, on the top of the head, and trying to punch them off she could see her shoes and everything,” Henderson said.

Tuesday afternoon, police passed out flyers to people in the area.

 Shamika Merritt got one of them.

“My condolences goes out the family, whosever daughter (because) that’s a scary feeling,” Merritt said.

Henderson says she got a look at the vehicle the girl was in as it left in front of their home.

“It was a smaller SUV, like a charcoal gray,” Henderson said. 

Police say they have gone to the schools and accounted for every student who was identified as absent. They are relying on tips from everyone for leads into this case. They are also working on a composite sketch of the victim, which they will release to the public soon.

"All we have to go on at this point is the witness information that saw the described abduction, and then we have other witnesses that saw this victim just prior. We had some students that weren't accounted for initially in this, but we've tracked them all down," said Deputy Chief Todd Hutchinson of the Titusville Police Department. "We understand that if someone is abducted, it may take until they're after school before someone notices they're gone."

Hutchinson says investigators have no reason to believe the original witness is not being accurate or truthful, based on interviews and descriptions.

The police dept. says they will keep the investigative team in place throughout the day, and that team is meeting.

Reporter Matt Fernandez contributed to this story.