Hundreds gathered Thursday evening in Bridgeport for a night of prayer for a high school senior who went missing nearly a week ago.

18-year-old Estefania Herrera, a senior and member of the swim team at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School in Chicago was last seen on Oct. 17, according to Chicago police.

"Please keep an eye out, we just want Estefania home," her aunt Karen Forbes said after the vigil. "We love you Estefania, please come home."

Herrera was on her way to a swim meet in Tinley Park when she was last accounted for. The plan was for her to take an early morning CTA bus to a school parking lot to meet her teammates to ride to the meet on a school bus.

However, Herrera "never made it there," Forbes said.

"She did swipe her Ventura card at the archer Pulaski bus going sout

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