Woman missing from Park Forest

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Jerrica “Ric Ric” Laws | Park Forest police

Police in south suburban Park Forest are looking for a 24-year-old woman who has been missing since Sunday.

Jerrica “Ric Ric” Laws was last seen walking in the 200 block of Lee Street in Park Forest about 7 p.m. Sunday, according to a statement from Park Forest police. She was reported missing by family members Tuesday evening.

Laws is described as a 5-foot-2, 140-pound black woman with a single piercing in each ear, police said. She was last seen wearing a dark-colored shirt.

Her family told authorities she has an undiagnosed mental disability, and she has been known to walk around Park Forest and Matteson, police said. She attends church in Kankakee and has family in Indianapolis, Ind.

Anyone with information about her is asked to contact police at (708) 748-1309 or (708) 748-4201.

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