WESTLAKE : Search Launched for Missing Nurse

Ventura County sheriff’s deputies combed the Westlake and Calabasas areas by car and helicopter Wednesday looking for a nurse who was reported missing after she failed to pick up her child from school Tuesday afternoon.

Deputies followed the normal routes that Kellie Coleen O’Sullivan, 34, of Westlake Village, might have followed between her workplace and her child’s school, but found no trace of her, Lt. Lary Reynolds said.

O’Sullivan had left work at a Canoga Park medical clinic for an appointment to pick up supplies at a Calabasas computer store about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, and witnesses at the storesaid she kept that appointment, Reynolds said.

But when O’Sullivan later failed to pick up her 5-year-old at a Calabasas-area school, concerned school officials called O’Sullivan’s housemate.

He then picked up the child and later called police about 8 p.m. Tuesday to report her missing, Reynolds said.

Friends told police that O’Sullivan was in good health and had no history of unusual behavior, Reynolds said.

“We’ve been out flying the back roads of the county,” Reynolds said. “We’ve used a helicopter to fly the normal routes she might have taken, looking for the car to see if she might have gone off the road.

“We also have driven the routes ourselves to see if the car has broken down somewhere,” Reynolds said.

Detectives are also trying to piece together other leads, talking to family members or co-workers who may have clues to O’Sullivan’s disappearance, Reynolds said.

O’Sullivan is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 125 pounds with medium build, light complexion, blonde hair and green eyes.

She was last seen wearing a white nurse’s uniform and driving a black, 1991 Ford Explorer with California license plate 2VPL883.

Anyone with information on O’Sullivan or the car should call the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department at 494-8207, Reynolds said.