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Police Seeking Missing and Endangered Woman and Her Daughter

August 21, 2025 |

Hawai‘i Island police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 50-year-old Shawndell Cortez, of Kailua-Kona, and her 7-year-old daughter Amina Bivings, who were reported missing. Cortez is considered endangered due to a medical condition.

Cortez is described as Filipino, 5 feet tall, 180 pounds, with a light brown complexion, long straight blonde hair, and brown eyes. She has a multicolored rose tattoo on the left side of her chest, a faded black cross on her left middle finger, and the name “Daniel J” tattooed across her left hand.

Bivings is described as Puerto Rican, African American, and Filipino. She is 4 feet tall, 50 pounds, with a medium brown complexion, curly light brown hair with blonde tips, and brown eyes.

The pair were last seen in the Kailua-Kona area on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at around 12:00 p.m.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Hawai‘i Police Department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.

Department:
Hawaiʻi Police Department
Division:
Area II Criminal Investigations Section
Officer:
Detective Bradley Llanes
Phone:
(808) 315-5829
Report Number:
25-075290

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