A SHAKESPEAREAN twist of fate brought two lovers together again, more than a decade after they first crossed paths.
A Tennessee woman who ran away as a teenager fell in love with one of the police officers tasked with finding her.
Roshin Ali and her fiance Tyler Schrupp were unknowingly reunited 12 years after Roshin ran away from home[/caption]
Tyler had been on a task force sent to find the missing teen 12 years before they ended up in the same workplace[/caption]
Roshin made a now viral TikTok sharing their fateful story in July[/caption]
Roshin Ali was just 13 years old when she fled her family’s home in Jackson, fearing her father would kill her.
Police had just begun their search for the missing teen when she returned home the following day.
Roshin landed a job at the same sheriff’s department 12 years later, where she met Tyler Schrupp.
Unbeknownst to the pair, Tyler had been in the unit of police searching for Roshin all those years ago.
He later said he didn’t recognise her when she started working at the sheriff’s department, but he was immediately drawn to her.
“He wouldn’t stop staring at me, but literally wouldn’t say a word at all,” Roshin said.
Tyler said he had been “kind of nervous” to talk to Roshin, because he “thought she was very beautiful”.
Eventually, Tyler mustered up the courage to say hello, and the two felt an immediate connection.
As their bond grew, Roshin started opening up about the trauma of her youth.
“We started putting the dates together and then she described the area,” Tyler said.
“That’s when I started to be like ‘Ok 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 are now engaged and share a five-month-old son.
Roshin shared the couple’s story to her TikTok account in July.
The story-time went viral, accumulating more than five million views.
Using a trending audio, she is shaking hands with Tyler, describing him as an “officer who went searching for me while missing”.
The video opened the floodgates to thousands of concerned comments asking if he had groomed her.
The couple are now engaged and have a baby together[/caption]
In a follow up four-part series, Roshin, known as Roro Nicole on social media, set the record straight.
“Some of the comments were that he’s grooming me, he kidnapped me and I’ve been with him this whole time, [he] kept me in his basement,” she said.
In harrowing detail, Roshin told her story, beginning in 2010 when she was 13 years old.
Her father was a gambling addict who didn’t allow his children to leave the house.
He arrived home one day after losing all his money, threatening to kill Roshin and her siblings if 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,” she said in the video.
Her sister stood with her back against the closed bedroom door, with her feet jammed against the wall, keeping their father out of the room.
“He told my mom to go get a knife and then he began to try stab her through the door,” Roshin said.
Her father eventually got into the room, grabbed her sister by the hair and dragged her into their parent’s bedroom, where he began to beat her with a cable wire.
“We can literally hear her begging him not to kill her,” Roshin recounted.
“He duct taped her hands together, her legs together and then placed duct tape on her mouth so nobody could hear her screaming.
“The my mom walks into our room and she looks at us, and she goes ‘y’all are next’”.
Roshin and her brother fled the home, climbing out of their bedroom window to escape.
The pair ran to the nearest park, before their father called the police and reported them missing.
When police attended the family home, Roshin’s sister reported the savage assault.
Their parents were arrested, but only spent “a couple of days” behind bars.
Roshin and her brother, who was 12 at the time, were found the following day and placed into foster care with their two older siblings.
“I truly believe if it was not [for] 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.
Tyler and Roshin – who plan to exchange vows in 2026 – said people are touched by their story.
“Somebody said he’s my hero,” Roshin said.
“And he is.”
