Update: Missing mother and 7-year-old daughter have been found

Update at 1:43 p.m. on Aug. 25: Hawaiʻi Police Department reports that missing persons Shawndell Cortez and Amina Bivings, 7, have been located in good health.

Original story at 4:44 p.m. on Aug 21: Hawai‘i Island police are seeking the public’s help in locating a woman from Kona and her 7-year-old daughter.

Shawndell Cortez, 50, and her daughter Amina Bivings, were reported missing Thursday afternoon. According to Hawai‘i Island police, the pair were last seen in the Kailua-Kona area on Aug. 3 at around noon.

Cortez is considered endangered due to a medical condition.

Cortez is 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.

Amina is 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.

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.