GILROY
– Six weeks ago today, sisters Michelle and Sheyla Aguilar
failed to return home from South Valley Junior High School.
GILROY – Six weeks ago today, sisters Michelle and Sheyla Aguilar failed to return home from South Valley Junior High School.
They’re still missing, and despite posters with their photos set up around town, police have few leads.
Marisol Lesiur, the girls’ mother, thinks Michelle, 14, and Sheyla, 13, are with an 18-year-old male named Yoshio Razo Ayala. Ayala sometimes uses the first names Jose and Juan, Lesiur said.
Gilroy police detective Cpl. Rosa Quiñones said she managed to speak to Ayala once, but he would not say where he was. He has moved from his former address.
“He said, ‘No, (the girls) are not with me,'” Quiñones said.
Quiñones suggested the girls might have gone to Los Angeles, but Lesiur said she thinks they are in the Gilroy, Salinas, San Juan Bautista area.
Lesiur has said she thinks Ayala abducted her daughters, but Quiñones said there is no evidence they were taken against their will.
Ayala was Sheyla Aguilar’s boyfriend, according to Quiñones. Morgan Hill police knew him to have gang connections, but he was not known to Gilroy police, Quiñones said.
Michelle and Sheyla Aguilar are the oldest of Lesiur’s six children. The family – mother, kids and the girls’ stepfather – lives on Las Animas Avenue.
Ayala may be driving a gray Honda or a blue minivan. According to Lesiur, someone saw him driving these vehicles in front of South Valley Junior High on the day the girls went missing.
Anyone with information about this case may call Gilroy police detective Rosa Quiñones at 846-0350.
Peter Crowley covers public safety for The Dispatch. You can reach him at 847-7216 or pc******@gi************.com
