CALENDAR OF WHAT HAS BEEN REPORTED ON-LINE IN MSM.
MARCH 21, 2014
Based on what was in news on-line reports in the month of March. You can view the entire article, if the link still works.
I have put a list of culled information; statements made and what was reported on news reports done on-line and listed them in date order. This does not include anything from NG or VMJ T.V. shows or any radio broadcasts.
They have been broken down by day, and there may be multiply posts for the same date due to size. They may also be repeats of various comments due to different news outlets reporting the same information, or repeating that same information again in later articles.
I have inserted the name of reference into [ ] when, without the entire article it may not be clear who the person is.
March 21
Police found a white 1976 GMC truck they say was being used by Kahlil Malik Tatum
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...and-girl-8-found-dead-hotel-article-1.1729067
March 21
Prince Georges County Police have obtained an arrest warrant charging Kahlil Malik Tatum, 51, of Southeast Washington with murder in the death of his wife, Andrea Denise Tatum,
Source:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014...for-8-year-old-girl-missing-in-southeast-d-c/
March 21
The FBI joined the investigation into Relishas disappearance Thursday morning after two vehicles possibly linked to Relisha were found at a motel in Oxon Hill.
Source:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014...for-8-year-old-girl-missing-in-southeast-d-c/
March 21
A woman that Relisha's family knew picked up the girl Feb. 26, but Relisha never was returned, District of Columbia police said.
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/21/8-year-old-girl-missing/6691397/
March 21
Police say Relisha and the men may have been in a white 1976 GMC truck, but that truck was discovered along Eastern Avenue between Prince Georges County and the district, but no sign of Relisha or the men.
Source:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/...ibed-in-amber-alert-found-girl-still-missing/
March 21
Authorities believe that Relisha may have been transported to the Richmond, Va., area but would not say why
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/21/8-year-old-girl-missing/6691397/
March 21
Relisha's mother, Shamika Young, said she has known Kahlil for years, and trusted him with her daughter. "I didnt see anything wrong with him. Hes a good guy," Young told News4 Friday. "When [Relisha] did go out with him, he brought her back. He would take her shopping, took her to see Disney on Ice, he bought her a tablet for Christmas, took her out to eat with his granddaughter."
"Bring my daughter back to me right now, please," Young said, with tears streaming down her face. "Its crazy. I want to know whats going on."
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...d-Reported-Missing-From-SE-DC--251168541.html
March 21
Shamika Young, Relishas mother, told Belinda Wheeler and other family members that her daughter was fine and that there was no cause to be worried.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Sources say all three of her younger brothers had been attending classes.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...sing-Girls-Relisha-Rudd-Family-251521641.html
March 21
relatives said that Young, who has been living in the shelter for months, had been in the habit of putting her daughter in the care of various family members.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Sources tell News4 that a witness told police Relisha may have been spotted in D.C. Thursday morning with an unidentified woman, while a neighbor said he spotted Relisha about three weeks ago with Tatum.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...d-Reported-Missing-From-SE-DC--251168541.html
March 21
The adult relative of the missing girl said that while she and Young were talking in December, Young mentioned that a man at the shelter had taken interest in Relisha.
The first thing I heard about him was that his wife and him fell in love with Relisha and they asked if they could be the godparents, the relative said. The next thing I heard about the man is around Christmas time. He bought [the child] an iPod and . . . other gifts.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
A teacher, according to the source, said Relisha said she had been ill and staying with her grandmother.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...d-Reported-Missing-From-SE-DC--251168541.html
March 21
She didn't look to be in any danger, so I just came on in the house and left," said Tatum neighbor Nicole Wilson, who lives beneath Tatum's apartment and told FBI agents she saw Relisha for the first time Saturday. "Saturday they were leaving the building," Wilson said. "I didn't think nothing of it."
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
The dead woman was found at a Red Roof Inn in Oxon Hill after dozens of police officers and detectives converged on the motel, acting on a tip that Relisha was there.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) had an active case working when Relisha went missing, along with three prior cases dating back to 2007, sources told News4. The previous cases included lack of food, insufficient shelter, medical neglect, inadequate supervision and at least one report of the mother hitting one of her children.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...sing-Girls-Relisha-Rudd-Family-251521641.html
March 21
Last month, police said, the mother allowed her daughter to be cared for by a shelter janitor, whom a relative described as someone the family has come to know during its 18-month stay there.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
The mother's fiancé said the woman gave permission to Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the shelter, to take her daughter. "She said she is at Mr. Tatum's house she's good," said Antonio Wheeler, fiancé. "I seen Mr. Tatum today and he said he would bring my daughter back."
Wheeler said he asked Tatum again later. "I asked him, he said, 'She is my house... would bring her back when I get off work today,'" Wheeler said. That never happened, Wheeler said. "It's nerve racking because he is not answering his phone and he is not at his place of residence," Wheeler said.
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
A close relative of 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, a missing homeless girl who is the focus of an intense police search, said Relishas mother claimed in recent weeks that the child was safe, although she was in the care of a man who police suspect has vanished with her.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Shamika Young, Relishas mother, told Belinda Wheeler and other family members that her daughter was fine and that there was no cause to be worried.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Andrea Tatum, who police said had sustained an apparent gunshot wound, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/21/police-truck-linked-to-missing-girl-found/
March 21
Friday night, police obtained a warrant charging the man, Kahlil Tatum, with killing his wife, Andrea Tatum, in Prince Georges County this week.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Police think Relisha is still with Tatum, and they have expanded their search for the girl to central Virginia.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), in an interview Friday, described Relishas family as troubled and said that Young had come to the attention of the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency even before Relisha disappeared. I know that there have been cases in the past, he said.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Grahams account mirrors observations from at least one family member, who said that child welfare officials have gone to Youngs apartment several times since 2007. An adult relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to alienate other relatives, said that on one occasion, after a visit from social workers, Youngs mother called other family members asking whether they had room for Relisha to sleep. The relative added that at one point, city social workers were visiting Youngs apartment once or twice a week to make sure there was enough food and that the place was clean.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
Relatives said that Young, who has been living in the shelter for months, had been in the habit of putting her daughter in the care of various family members.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
FBI agents went door to door on N Street in Southeast at Tatum's apartment building
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
Relisha was enrolled at Payne Elementary School in Southeast Washington. She last attended school for a full day March 5, according to a source familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
A school counselor at Payne Elementary, who wasn't even responsible for the 8-year-old, learned she hadn't been in school for several weeks, so he took it upon himself to visit the shelter Wednesday. Upon learning the mother allegedly voluntarily let the girl go with Tatum, he called police
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
Police said they suspect that on or about Feb. 26, Young, who grew up in foster care herself, had put the girl in Tatums care.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
The mother's fiancé said the woman gave permission to Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the shelter, to take her daughter.
"She said she is at Mr. Tatum's house she's good," said Antonio Wheeler, fiancé. "I seen Mr. Tatum today and he said he would bring my daughter back."
Wheeler said he asked Tatum again later.
"I asked him, he said, 'She is my house... would bring her back when I get off work today,'" Wheeler said.
That never happened, Wheeler said. "It's nerve racking because he is not answering his phone and he is not at his place of residence," Wheeler said.
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
The source said that a teacher at Payne saw Relisha at the school March 7 and that Relisha said she had been sick and was staying with a grandmother.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
"She didn't look to be in any danger, so I just came on in the house and left," said Tatum neighbor Nicole Wilson, who lives beneath Tatum's apartment and told FBI agents she saw Relisha for the first time Saturday. "Saturday they were leaving the building," Wilson said. "I didn't think nothing of it."
Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9474794
March 21
Police and a D.C. official with knowledge of the investigation said the shelter organization that employed Tatum conducted a background check on him in 2012 and that nothing emerged that would disqualify him from working at the shelter.
However, court records in Virginia show that he had numerous arrests and several convictions in the late 1990s and early 2000s for larceny and breaking and entering.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
On Thursday, police found the unoccupied truck described in an Amber Alert for Relisha parked in Chapel Oaks in Prince Georges County.
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/21/police-truck-linked-to-missing-girl-found/
March 21
a photo distributed by police shows her with her hair in braids and barrettes. Police, who were alerted to her disappearance Wednesday, said they did not know what she might be wearing because it has been weeks since she was last seen by close family members.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0f1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?hpid=z2
March 21
A spokesman for D.C. police told The Washington Post late Friday that officers dont know if Relisha is on foot with Kahlil Tatum, or in another vehicle.
D.C. police said Kahlil Tatum, an employee at a homeless shelter where Relishas family had stayed for 18 months, was known to the family,
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/21/police-truck-linked-to-missing-girl-found/
March 21
The Amber Alert initially identified two people thought to be with the girl Kahlil Malik Tatum, the janitor, and Rickie Sheridan Lyles and said they were in a white 1976 GMC truck with the Maryland license plate 305015. But Thursday night, D.C. police issued a second alert that did not include Lyless name because they didnt believe he was traveling with the girl.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
D.C. police notified Richmond authorities Thursday night that they had reason to believe Rudd might be in the greater Richmond area.
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/21/police-truck-linked-to-missing-girl-found/
March 21
Police said they believe that the dead woman was Tatums wife, although her name was not released. The body showed signs of trauma, they said, but they would not describe how they think she was killed.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
The wife of a man wanted for abducting an 8-year-old girl was found shot to death in a Maryland hotel room, police said, and her husband was the culprit.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...and-girl-8-found-dead-hotel-article-1.1729067
March 21
But a city official and police with knowledge of the search said that detectives are frustrated by contradictory statements, the inability to pin down a definitive timeline of events, and the unclear relationship between Tatum, Relisha and Relishas mother. One question still unanswered is precisely when the girl disappeared
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
Based on accounts from the girls family, police say the mother asked Tatum to care for the girl on Feb. 26. Belinda Wheeler, Relishas paternal grandmother, said the girls mother described the janitor as someone who brought Relisha a lot of gifts. . . . This Mr. Tatum was a friend of the family. . . . He was trying to be Relishas godfather. But she added that Tatum did not know the family before they moved into the shelter.
Wheeler would not say where the girl had been staying since she left with Tatum on Feb. 26.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
That official also said that school authorities and social workers flagged numerous absences by the girl from Payne Elementary School in Southeast, including a string starting on or shortly after Feb. 26. The official said the mother provided varying accounts, such as the girl was staying with her grandmother. She was on our radar screen several times for absences, the official said.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
Relatives said the mother told them several stories to explain why the girl was gone.
She said, [Relisha] is at Mr. Tatums house, shes good. I seen Mr. Tatum today, and he said he would bring my daughter back, the mothers fiancé, Antonio Wheeler, told ABC News.
Wheeler said he also saw Tatum recently and asked about the little girl.
I asked him. He said, She is at my house ... would bring her back when I get off work today, Wheeler recalled.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...and-girl-8-found-dead-hotel-article-1.1729067
March 21
On Wednesday, the D.C. official said social workers finally called police to investigate. Within hours, D.C. authorities labeled Relisha a critically missing child,
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
Her mother, Shamika Rudd, refused to fill out a missing persons report, according to WRC-TV.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...and-girl-8-found-dead-hotel-article-1.1729067
March 21
D.C. police officials said that the girls mother has not considered her child missing and said that she had talked to her by phone as recently as Wednesday. But the mother also had met with Tatum and asked him to return Relisha, the same officials said. He promised to but did not follow through, the police said.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html?tid=pm_pop
March 21
One of Tatums neighbors told the news station that she saw a little girl who looked like Relisha leaving the mans home Saturday.
She didnt look to be in any danger, so I just came on in the house and left, said the neighbor, Nicole Wilson. I didnt think nothing of it.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...and-girl-8-found-dead-hotel-article-1.1729067
March 21
Police have recovered a white truck wanted in connection to the disappearance of 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, but the child and her suspected abductor remain at large.
Source:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014...for-8-year-old-girl-missing-in-southeast-d-c/
March 21
In an update late Thursday, Richmond Police said they believe the girl has been in Richmond, but cant say if they still think she is here.
Source:
http://wtvr.com/2014/03/20/relisha-tenau-rudd-amber-alert-1/
March 21
The FBI joined the investigation into Relishas disappearance Thursday morning after two vehicles possibly linked to Relisha were found at a motel in Oxon Hill.
Source:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014...for-8-year-old-girl-missing-in-southeast-d-c/
March 21
While Relisha hadn't been seen at Payne Elementary School since last month, sources say all three of her younger brothers had been attending classes.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...sing-Girls-Relisha-Rudd-Family-251521641.html
March 21
They found the victim, Andrea Tatum, in a first floor room, nearest to the cars. Police say she sustained an apparent gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Source:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/...ibed-in-amber-alert-found-girl-still-missing/
March 21
D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) had an active case working when Relisha went missing, along with three prior cases dating back to 2007, sources told News4. The previous cases included lack of food, insufficient shelter, medical neglect, inadequate supervision and at least one report of the mother hitting one of her children.
Source:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...sing-Girls-Relisha-Rudd-Family-251521641.html
March 21
Police say Relisha and the men may have been in a white 1976 GMC truck, but that truck was discovered along Eastern Avenue between Prince Georges County and the district, but no sign of Relisha or the men.
Source:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/...ibed-in-amber-alert-found-girl-still-missing/
March 21
Tatum and the little girl are believed to be in the Richmond, Virginia area now
Source:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/...ibed-in-amber-alert-found-girl-still-missing/
