Amber Alert for 4-year-old Texas girl Maleah Davis, allegedly abducted by 3 men: Cops originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

A frantic search was underway in Texas Sunday for a 4-year-old girl whose whose mother's ex-fiance told police she was kidnapped by three men, including one who knocked him out during a carjacking, authorities said.

An Amber Alert was issued on Sunday morning for Maleah Davis, a Houston girl who underwent brain surgery last month. She was last seen wearing a pink bow in her hair, a light blue zip-up jacket, blue jeans, and sneakers, police said.

Police are asking the public for help in finding the girl, who was last seen on Friday night when, according to what her her mother's former fiance, Derion Vence, 26, told police, three mystery men beat him up and briefly held him and her 1-year-old brother hostage. He later told police that they dumped him and the toddler on the side of the road and absconded with Maleah.

PHOTO: An Amber alert was issued Sunday for 4-year-old Texas girl, Maleah Davis. She was last seen on Saturday night with three men who allegedly abducted her, her mother's former fiance told police. (Houston Police) More

Sgt. Mark Holbrook of the Houston Police Department Homicide Division said Vence said that he went in and out of consciousness during the ordeal and, at one point, woke up to find the suspects driving him and the two children around in what he described as a blue pickup truck.

Vence told police that he eventually regained full consciousness around 6 p.m. on Saturday, waking up on the side of a road in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land with his toddler unharmed near his side.

But Maleah was nowhere to be found, Vence told police.

Anyone with information on Maleah's whereabouts is urged to contact HPD Homicide at 713-308-3600 or @CrimeStopHOU>#hounews>pic.twitter.com/8F0PRPRgFN— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) May 5, 2019

Holbrook said there is about a 21-hour gap between the alleged assault and when he woke up on the side of the road that Vence doesn't remember.

"We'd love the public to help us so we can fill in the blanks in this story. I realize there are a lot of blanks in that story, but we're hoping the public can fill in the blanks," Holbrook said during a news conference Sunday afternoon.

Holbrook declined to say if police are suspicious of Vence's story. But he noted that investigators have not found any evidence, including security video or independent witnesses, to corroborate the Vence's story.

PHOTO: An Amber alert was issued Sunday for 4-year-old Texas girl, Maleah Davis. She was last seen on Saturday night with three men who allegedly abducted her. (Houston Police) More

"I don't want to speculate," he said, explaining the purpose of Sunday's news conference is to get the public to help "to figure out what really happened."

Vence told police he was driving with the children to pick up their mother Friday night at George Bush Intercontinental Airport when he noticed something wrong with their car, a 2011 silver Nissan Altima, and pulled over in north Houston, Holbrook said.

"He hears a popping noise like he has a flat tire, pulls over to check on it," Holbrook said. "According to Derion, what happens next is a blue pickup truck pulls up behind him, two Hispanic males get out. One of them makes a comment, saying that Maleah looks very nice, looks very sweet. The other male hits Derion in the head. Derion loses consciousness."

1/2: Photos displayed at the media briefing: first is victim's stolen car, a silver 2011 Nissan Altima with TX paper tags 3092G9, seen on a traffic camera near Hwy 59 & State Hwy 6 in Sugar Land about 3 pm Saturday (May 4). Second is photo likeness of suspects' blue truck. pic.twitter.com/rseWWqO4s4— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) May 5, 2019

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