UPDATE:

Gabriella “Gaby” Augustenborg has been found, Maricopa Police Department spokesperson Monica Williams said.

Gaby was found to be with people she knew, Williams said.

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Gabriella “Gaby” Augustenborg, a 16-year-old 10th-grader at Desert Sunrise High School, has gone missing.

Her mother, Michele Augustenborg, a resident of The Lakes, said the teen has having long brown hair, is 5-foot-3 and weighs 140 pounds.

The girl has been missing since 6 a.m. yesterday morning.

She was last seen leaving home for the school bus stop, her mother said, calling her daughter “very quiet and shy.”

“This is not her,” Augustenborg said of her daughter. “I’m worried she could have been picked up by someone, maybe going to the school bus, about five minutes away.”

She said a missing person report has been filed with Maricopa Police Department.

Augustenborg said her daughter has never left home before and was “very much a home body” who would sometimes go to parks in The Lakes when she went outdoors.

Several attempts to contact her daughter’s cell phone have been unsuccessful, Augustenborg said. She has also contacted her friends in both Maricopa and Chandler, she said, without success.

She has also talked to Desert Sunrise administrators and the high school’s student resource officer from MPD, as well as Gaby’s social media group of friends.

If you have seen Gaby Augustenborg, or know her location, contact Maricopa Police Department at 520-568-3673, or dial 911.