ST. GEORGE — The St. George Police Department is seeking the public’s help to locate a mother and her three children who went missing Monday afternoon. Police say they are considered to be in danger.

Brittany Etta Deal, 27, and her three children were last seen in St. George, Utah, Aug. 19, 2024 | Photo courtesy of the St. George Police Department, St. George News

According to information released by St. George Police Officer Tiffany Mitchell on the department’s social media page, 27-year-old Brittany Etta Deal’s three children were last seen on Monday shortly after 5:15 p.m., when they were picked up from a daycare center in St. George by 36-year-old David Gene Remley. Remley was reportedly driving a white GMC Terrain registered to the children’s mother with a Utah license plate of 5AF687.

Police say they don’t know if the mother was inside the vehicle at the time or her current whereabouts.

Remley is described as a 5-foot-10-inch white man weighing about 185 pounds. He has blonde or sandy hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a striped T-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes. 

Deal is described as a 5-foot-1-inch white woman with bleached blonde hair and blue eyes. She has a dermal piercing on her right cheek, a tattoo of mountains and arrowheads on her left arm and flowers on her right thigh. 

The three children are described as follows: Braylee Michelle Kelly, 9, is a 5-foot white girl with brown hair and brown eyes who weighs 80 pounds; Quentin Michael Kelly, 5, is a 4-foot-8-inch white boy who weighs about 60 pounds; and Brixton King Haley, 2, is a 3-foot white boy who weighs approximately 45 pounds. 

There is an active protective order between Deal and Remley in place that was filed following a recent family altercation, police say.

This photo shows a white GMC Terrain included in the post on the St. George Police Department’s Facebook page, St. George, Utah, Aug. 19, 2024 | Photo courtesy of the St. George Police Department, St. George News

“Because of this, we consider Brittany, Quetin, Braylee, and Briston to be endangered,” Mitchell said in the social media release. 

The incident is currently under investigation.

“Finding them safe is our highest priority,” Mitchell said.

Anyone with any information that may help locate Remley, Deal or the three children is asked to contact the St. George Police Department at 435-627-4300.

This report is based on statements from court records, police or other responders and may not contain the full scope of findings. Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.

Copyright St. George News, SaintGeorgeUtah.com LLC, 2024, all rights reserved.

Cody Blowers was raised in South San Francisco, California. A 2013 graduate of Colorado Technical University, Cody earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with a minor in paralegal studies. Through the course of her academic studies she discovered that writing is her true passion, and she is committed to providing credible, integrated news coverage. Cody joined St. George News in 2015, and when she’s not busy chasing the news, she can generally be found chasing her young granddaughter, Kali.

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