Family and friends of an Atlanta teenager missing since Wednesday fanned out through neighborhoods on the west side of the city Saturday distributing flyers with photographs and information about Nailah Yungai.

Atlanta police spokesman Officer Ron Campbell said Friday that Nailah Yungai, 15, was last seen at her family's home about 1 a.m. She was discovered missing at 5 a.m.

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The Atlanta Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in locating teenager Nailah Yungai.

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She is 5 feet 5 inches tall, 155 pounds, wears her hair in a ponytail, and was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with a white skeletal rib cage and red heart, and flip flops, said her father, Mohammed Yungai.

About 100 people gathered before noon in the parking lot of Salem Baptist Church on Baker Road Northwest as Yungai, and wife Khadijah, told reporters they were "really baffled" by their daughter's disappearance.

"Did she run away?" said Mohammed Yungai. "Did somebody seduce her and lure her out? Did she go to meet a boy? We don't know."

An alum of Kipp Ways Academy, where her father teaches visual arts, Yungai was home on summer break from Darlington School in Rome when she disappeared.

She was interning at Kipp Ways as an administrative assistant and was supposed to catch a bus to work Wednesday morning, he said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Sgt. Tucker at the Atlanta Police Department's Crimes Against Children unit at 404-817-7895

— AJC staff writer Kathy Jefcoats contributed to this report.