Disappearance of Sydney West
Sydney Kaitlyn West, a 19-year-old student at the University of [California, Berkeley], disappeared near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on September 30, 2020. West was last captured on surveillance footage walking toward the bridge amid heavy fog and wildfire smoke. The case remains unresolved.
Background
Sydney Kaitlyn West was born on July 11, 2001. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Foothill High School (Pleasanton, California) before her family relocated to North Carolina in 2017. She graduated from Carrboro High School in Carrboro, North Carolina, where she played volleyball. After taking a gap year, she moved back to California in late August 2020 to attend summer sessions at UC Berkeley as a freshman. Due to a concussion she sustained the summer of 2020 and disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, she deferred her enrollment at UC Berkeley until Fall 2021. At the time of her disappearance, she was living with family friends in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Police Department noted that West was considered at risk due to depression.West was a white female, 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde or light brown hair. She was last seen wearing a teal or blue hoodie or sweatshirt, dark leggings or shorts, and slip-on Vans sneakers, possibly with a tropical print, and carrying a black backpack, with her hair in a bun and possibly wearing eyeglasses.