UPDATE: The Albemarle County Police Department reports Shayn and Shaun Steppe have been found and are safe.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The Albemarle County Police Department is asking for help to find a pair of juveniles who may be endangered.

The Virginia State Police issued a Critically Missing Child Alert for these brothers on Friday night.

According to police, eight-year-old Shayn Lucious Steppe has not been seen since Feb. 23 and 13-year-old Shaun Lee Steppe was last seen on Feb. 24.

Both children were last seen on East Jefferson Street in the company of 43-year-old Angela Ridgewell Steppe in a silver 2002 GMC Yukon with Virginia tags 823-0000

Shayn is 5-foot-2 and weighs 140 pounds while Shaun is 5-foot-7 and weighs 100 pounds. Both bi-racial boys have brown eyes and black hair.

Angela is described as a white woman who is 5-foot-3 and weighs 130 pounds. She has hazel eyes and brown hair.


Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of either Steppe brother or Angela is asked to contact Detective Lavin at (434) 296-5807 or CrimeStoppers at (434) 977-4000. Tips can also be submitted to [email protected].

(Shaun's age has been corrected. Police initially reported he is 10 years old, but he is 13.)