Rain hampers search efforts for Maleah Davis

SUGAR LAND, Texas (FOX 26) – The search for missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis is being suspended until flooding in the search area recedes.

On Tuesday, Texas Equusearch set up its command post in the parking lot next door to the apartments where Maleah Davis is said to have lived with her mom and stepdad when she went missing. Rain hampered search efforts. Some areas near Sugar Land received nearly a foot of rain on Tuesday evening.

Volunteers move their search nearly an hour away on Tuesday from the original search scene and into southwest Houston where Maleah’s stepfather Darion Vence says he was left on a roadside on Saturday after being abducted in northeast Houston on Friday night.

Sugar Land is also the location where he told detectives he realized Maleah was missing on Saturday.

Sugar Land police say Darion Vence told investigators conflicting information. First he said he walked to Sugar Land Methodist Hospital after regaining consciousness Saturday following the alleged abduction. Then, Sugar Land police say he changed his story to say he was dropped off there by someone in a car.

Detectives say they have been looking for surveillance video in the Sugar Land area.