PITTSBURGH --

4:35 PM UPDATE: Police have arrested Gasper Keels and charged him with stealing a car that was seen speeding from the scene. Keels is being held in the Dekalb County Jail, charged with theft of a motor vehicle. Police are still searching for Bowie.

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An Atlanta woman was kidnapped and her mother in Pittsburgh is searching for answers.

Channel 11 has learned that Monica Renee Bowie was abducted from her Atlanta area apartment on Thursday.

Her mother, Linda Howard, lives on Pittsburgh's North Side and talked with Channel 11.

Howard said, “I'm going to go to Atlanta if I have to walk I'm going to Atlanta.”

Howard and her family are frantic. Howard learned on Sunday that her 34-year-old daughter is believed to have been kidnapped.

Her daughter's friends called and told her that Bowie’s disappearance was all over the Atlanta news.

“There were plenty of witnesses -- screaming to the top of her lungs, ‘Help me. Help me. Help me,” Howard said.

She said Bowie’s purse was found in the parking lot of her Dekalb County apartment.

Howard said, “They witnessed two guys putting her into a car -- two black males, one heavy, one small -- putting her into a car.”

Police have now found a burgundy Mercury Sable suspected to be involved, but there is still no sign of the men or Bowie. Howard said she last talked to her daughter on the Fourth of July. She was planning her wedding.

“And for me not to have contact with her for me not to know is devastating,” Howard said.

Howard said she can't afford the plane tickets to get to Atlanta, but she is determined to get there and get some answers.

Howard said, “I'm pleading for help in any kind of way. I have to get there today.”

And she said she's relying on her faith that her daughter will be OK. “I put it in God's hands. That's all I can do,” she added.

Howard said she does not believe the incident was a domestic dispute.

Channel 11 learned on Sunday that Bowie was arrested last month on a drug charge and for possession of a firearm.