Great News: Missing girl Kaylen Langon found alive!

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Police say the Matteson teenager who was reported missing last week — before returning Sunday — ran away from home when she got picked up in a van during school.

Kaylen Langon, 16, whom family and friends hadn’t seen since she left Rich South High School in Richton Park on Wednesday, called her mother at 4 a.m. Sunday “screaming for her to come and get her,” according to Airicka Gordon-Taylor, a spokeswoman for the family.

“She was shaken up by the fact she was in the environment and she’s a straight suburban girl,” said Langon’s mom, Karen Lewis-Sims. “She knows nothing about being in Chicago.”

Matteson Deputy Chief Ken Arvin said Langon’s parents alerted police right after she called. Officers went to the family home and helped the girl identify a church to stand by since she was lost at about 75th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago.

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