( CNN ) -- An Atlanta-area woman is angry after she says police used a little-known messaging feature on Facebook to contact her after her son was killed . Anna Lamb-Creasey says it took several weeks to find a message from Clayton County police telling her to call them . The news was that her son , 30-year-old Rickie Lamb , had died after being hit by a car January 24 . Even after finding the message , she initially ignored it . Lamb-Creasey says the message came from a Facebook account under the name `` Misty Hancock '' that featured an image of Atlanta rapper T.I . as its profile picture . `` I 'm like , OK. ... I 'm thinking it 's just fake , '' Lamb-Creasey told CNN affiliate WSB-TV . On Facebook , users can message other users who are not their friends . But those messages show up not in their inboxes but in an `` Other '' folder that many users do n't know to look for . Clayton County police did not immediately return a message Tuesday seeking comment . They told WSB they had tried reaching Lamb 's family in more conventional ways , including visiting several physical addresses , but were unsuccessful . Police told the station Monday that they were investigating why the message was sent from what appears to be a personal account instead of an official one . The family finally contacted police on Valentine 's Day when Lamb-Creasey 's daughter , who received a similar message , called them . A tearful Lamb-Creasey said she 's furious at the department . `` They told me that they did the best that they can do . But I 'm not sure about that , '' she said . `` If they can track a criminal down , they could n't track me down ? They could have done better . I 've been on my job 13 years . They could have found me . ''
She is angry after someone sent Facebook messages asking her to leave . Anna Lamb - She did n't find the others for two days . Facebook messages from non - friends go into a little - known ` ` Other '' folder .