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New Photos Released in Search for Sky Metalwala

Bellevue Police have released new photos in the search for Sky Metalwala, who went missing Nov. 6. His mother, Julia Biryukova, has not been interviewed directly by police since the day her son disappeared.

Bellevue police have released new photos of missing Redmond toddler Sky Metalwala, 2, and his mother, Julia Biryukova, 30, in the hopes that more witnesses will come forward.

Maj. Mike Johnson of the Bellevue Police Department says that the newest photos more accurately reflect what Sky and his mother looked like in the days before he disappeared Nov. 6.

He said that so far, 1,200 tips have come in regarding Sky's disappearance, and some of them have been fruitful.

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Johnson also added that Biryukova has not been interviewed directly by investigators since the day she reported her son's disappearance and that they have requested an interview as recently as Friday, Nov. 18, 12 days after Sky disappeared.

Biryukova reported him missing Nov. 6. She said they left their home in the Veloce Apartments in downtown Redmond that morning, and she was taking him to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue because he was sick. She told detectives that her Acura Integra ran out of gas in the 2400 block of 112th Ave. N.E. in Bellevue near the junction of State Route 520 and Interstate 405. She said she left the sleeping toddler in the car while she and her daughter walked about a mile to get gas. When she and a friend returned to the car, the toddler was gone.

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An , involving helicopters and hundreds of volunteers, focused on the area surrounding the missing boy’s home in Redmond and a wooded area near 112th Ave. N.E. in Bellevue where his mother reported him missing. But the search produced no new substantive leads.

Bellevue police have said that , including the car trouble that she reported.

Sky's father, Solomon Metalwala, has been organizing .

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Sky Elijah Metalwala

  • Age 2, 2’10” tall, 39 pounds, black hair, brown eyes.
  • Sky was last seen on Nov. 6, 2011, in the 2600 block of 112th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA.
  • He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black and aqua blue sweatpants and white socks.
  • Sky was in the silver 1998 Acura Integra three door coupe pictured when he disappeared.
  • Police ask anyone who was traveling Sunday morning along 112th Avenue Northeast, between State Route 520 and Northeast 24th Street, to please call the Bellevue Police tip line at 425-452-2564 or by email at pdtipline@bellevue.wa.gov

  


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