She went missing — and found her heart.
A Tennessee woman who ran away as a teenager fell in love with the cop who went searching for her 15 years ago.
Roshin Ali was 13 when she fled from her Jackson, TN, home out of fear her father would kill her. Tyler Schrupp was one of the police officers assigned to find her. She returned a day later and Schrupp never met her.
Fast forward 12 years, when a grown-up Ali lands a job at the sheriff’s department.
Schrupp didn’t know who she was, but was immediately drawn to her.
“He wouldn’t stop staring at me, but literally wouldn’t say a word at all,” Ali, 28, told The Post.
“I thought she was very beautiful, which is why I was kind of nervous to talk to her,” Schrupp, 38, said.
Once they began talking, they felt an immediate connection, which led to Ali opening up about the trauma of her youth.
“We started putting the dates together and then she described the area,” Schrupp recalled.
“That’s when I started to be like, ‘Okay, I was a part of that. It’s crazy that back then I was looking for you, and now we’re sitting here talking.’”
The pair got engaged in August 2024, and share a 5-month-old son.
In July, Ali went viral with her story, racking up 5 million views for a TikTok video where she shakes hands with Schrupp, describing him as an “officer who went searching for me while missing.”
Ali, who goes by Roro Nicole on social media, needed to set the record straight after TikTokers jumped to the wrong conclusions.
“Some of the comments were that he’s grooming me. He kidnapped me and I’ve been with him this whole time, kept me in his basement,” she said.
In a four-part video series, she detailed the true and harrowing ordeal.
In 2010, her gambling-addict father — who didn’t allow his kids outside the house — came home one day after losing all his money and threatened to kill Ali and her siblings after he caught them outside.
“We immediately . . . ran into our bedroom because we were afraid that he was going to start beating on us like he normally does whenever he comes home upset,” Ali explained on TikTok.
Her sister stood with her back against the bedroom door and feet on the wall to hold it shut so their dad couldn’t get inside.
“So then he told my mom to go get a knife and then he began to try to stab her through the door,” Ali continued.
When her father eventually was able to open the door, he grabbed her sister by the hair and dragged her into his bedroom where he began beating her with a cable wire.
“We can literally hear her begging him not to kill her. He duct taped her hands together, her legs together and then placed duct tape on her mouth so nobody could hear her screaming,” she recalled.
“Then my mom walks into our room and she looks at us, and she goes, ‘Y’all are next.’”
That’s when Ali and her brother jumped out their bedroom window and ran to the nearest park. Her father called the cops to report them missing.
When the police arrived, Ali’s sister reported she was assaulted and the cops took the parents into custody, where they spent only “a couple of days” in jail.
Ali and her brother, who was 12, were found the next day and placed in foster care along with their two siblings, who were 15 and 16.
“I truly believe if it was not me running away from the house that day and officers being involved, I don’t think that we’d still be here alive,” she said.
Ali and Schrupp, who will wed next year, said people are touched by their story.
“Somebody said he’s my hero,” Ali said. “And he is.”
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