York Regional Police continue to search for a Markham woman who has been missing for a week.

25-year-old Taneesha Brown was last seen near McCowan Road and Castlemore Avenue around 10:30 pm on January 12th.

“Taneesha, please contact somebody and let us know you’re OK because we need you back in our lives,” her mother, Kim Mazerolle, cried in an interview with CityNews. “It’s not the same without you.”

On Monday, police released a surveillance video from Bur Oak Secondary School, located in the Markham Road and 16th Avenue area, showing a person believed to be Brown walking and talking with an unknown man.

The video was filmed about 20 minutes after she was seen by her family at her aunt’s house near McCowan and Castlemore.

Police believe the man was attending the event. However, they said he not a suspect, but a witness who spoke to Brown before she walked away.

Police said they have identified and spoken to the man, but have not released details of their conversation with him.

Brown headed south towards 16th Avenue after their conversation.

York police Const. Andy Pattenden said it appears Brown was walking towards the GO train station in the area.

Last week, Brown’s family and investigators said they were especially concerned as she is not dressed for the weather. She also lives with bipolar disorder and was not taking medication at the time.

“Now that we know that she’s on foot and walking around not dressed for the conditions, that’s why I’m worried,” Brown’s brother, Kevin Mazerolle, told CityNews.

“The only assumption I’ve made thus far is she’s alive and she’s safe somewhere. Someone is taking care of her,” her sister Felicia Mazerolle said.

Brown is black, five-feet-five-inches tall and 122 pounds. She has long black hair with pink streaks in it.

Police said she was last seen wearing a traditional Muslim outfit including a white, knee-length dashiki, white pants and a white hijab on her head. She was also carrying a black purse.

(Story courtesy of 680 News.com Staff, video courtesy of York Regional Police)