gitana1
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I'm so sorry Blaze is dead, apparently due to homicide. Whatever happened -- whether and how it involved that drainage pipe or something else -- I hope he died quickly.
I wonder whether he or an assailant sent that text at 11:30pm, the one that later caused concern. For him to have sent it, he would have to have been still alive yet probably under threat or injured. In that case, because he was apparently using a phone borrowed from a relative, I wonder whether he (a) had imported his contacts or (b) remembered the number of the friend he texted, implying it was someone who he knew well. (He might've texted that person precisely because it was someone whose number he remembered.) Unless of course that person's number was also in his relative's phone.
If an assailant sent the text, the assailant would have had to know the number of the friend, unless again the number happened to be in Blaze's relative's phone. Perhaps it was a mutual friend?
The phone thing is odd. If you know you're in trouble it's typically too late to send a message, or if not, you still have time to yell and the friend in the car would've heard it. So that points to the friend being involved and maybe sending a fake text.
But I don;t know. I could see this being the odd situation of a friend driving him to a Tinder/Grindr hook-up and waiting in the car, maybe because Blaze wanted a friend nearby just in case, and then something happened, but the friend didn;t do anything because he or she did not know if everything was still going on, then after a time was too afraid to walk around in the dark up there, and didn't call police because young people that age can still be secretive and wary of adults.
What makes me pause on that possibility though is the fact that this friend never called the parents or authorities the next day and had to be contacted by, who? LE? The parents? Because I can understand some level of keeping secrets but at a certain point, if there is no contact, wouldn;t the friend feel the need to seek help with the situation?