Police are still looking for Augustine "Auggie" Floyd, a Suttons Bay man who went missing when he was 18-years-old in the fall of 2007. Floyd's brother was with him the night he disappeared. Misheka Floyd, Auggie's cousin, grew up in the same house as Auggie and considers himself Auggie's older brother. He says that they stayed in their grandmother's home with their other siblings and cousins in Leelanau County. Misheka says that Auggie's mother was murdered when he was young and that he looked out for him growing up. "With the passing of my mother and then his mother, within a couple years, and having no fathers, either family, we were all we had," Misheka said. "So, it just brought us closer. It was great. I loved trying to be, at least, the role model for them." Auggie was a running back and Misheka would come home from his high school football practice playing all-time quarterback, showing his family plays he learned that day. "I used to call him my little Barry Sanders, the way he ran, I could see greatness in him," Misheka said. "He was going to do something." Auggie was a running back and played for his tribe's team. "Watching him play football, it was like, Wow" Misheka said. "He was so young and it just came natural to him, to move like that. He actually had a scholarship to play for St. Francis in Traverse City, I guess, that what my grandma was telling me; and lost it. He was really good. He always put a smile on my face." Misheka says Auggie was turning his life around and started taking classes at Northwestern Michigan College. "My grandma told me that right before he went missing that he came to her and was like, "Grandma I want to find Jesus" Misheka said. "He was actually maybe about to get his life together and then he's gone."
Misheka was with Auggie the night he went missing. Auggie showed up at Misheka's home and they both went to a mall in Midland. After that, Misheka says Auggie went to the T-Pain concert and Misheka took their grandmother to another concert. Misheka says he was proud of his little brother, seeing him with his own car, buying him a meal and pair of shoes. "It just made me smile," Misheka said. "My baby brother had grown up, was out on his own. His own car, on a date with a girl, it was gratifying." Now gone for almost 8 years, Misheka reflects on what happened that night. After the concerts, they went to a party and saw a group they had gotten into a fight with a year before."They started trying to talk trash to him, "What are you doing here?" this and that," Misheka said. "I just said, "Whoa, whoa, stop. What are you guys doing?" They're like, "Man, he can't be here". I just told them, I said, "Look, the whole thing started between me and you and that's where it ends. We squashed it. Me and you talked about it. It's done. You don't want to fight me. I don't want to fight you. This is my little brother. (If) you guys (are going) to fight him, you're (going to) have to fight me. None of us want to do this. If you're cool with me, you're cool with him. That's how it's got to be." Misheka says Auggie and he left that party around two to three in the morning and took a van away from the party. "I told my brother, Auggie, "Hey, look, don't worry about it." Misheka said. "But, if something does happen, make sure you come get me. I'm around. Don't let them catch you slipping because, if they can, they'll probably jump you and beat you up. He was like, "Alright." I gave him a hug." Misheka says Auggie headed to Misheka cousin's, Erin's, home, where Auggie's car was parked. Misheka went to his uncle's home and later that morning, headed to Erin's home. "We went over there and I'm talking to them, my cousin Erin and them, like, "Where's Auggie?" Misheka said. "She was like, "I don't know. He came over here, got his keys, and took off." I was like, "Oh, okay." Didn't think none of it, try to call him, "Hey, man, where you at? Give me a call when you get this message, when you wake up." I was kind of worried but then maybe he just went back home. I have no idea. But, when my grandma called me and asked me if I had seen him, I told her, "No. I thought he went home." She said no. That's when we kind of got worried." Misheka says himself, his grandmother, family and friends, were out late nights searching for Auggie. He says that they called jails, hospitals, and every place they could think of throughout Michigan. "Nobody wanted to help us, the cops, none of the cops wanted to help us," Misheka said. "We had all the ordinary citizens, a lot of the people out there, helping us. A lot of my friends out there, my family, the people I consider family, stepping up and helping us search all these places. More regular people showed up for us, more than any law enforcement agency around here. Maybe if they did listen, maybe it would've been over a long time ago and my grandma wouldn't have to suffer, my family wouldn't have to suffer through this." Misheka says he's numb now to all the rumors that have been circulating about where his brother's whereabouts may be but that he's still hopeful he'll get answers. "I want to be able to go someplace, visit him, and talk to him," Misheka said. "Someplace I can go when I miss him and I think about him. I want them to have that. My grandma, she's not in the best health anymore. I want her to have that closure before she passes. I don't want her to die not knowing what happened. I don't want to die not knowing what happened. I want to know what happened to my brother. I got to know. I've always known that some people in this community had something to do with it. There's no question about it. Just who." Misheka also had something to say for anyone who may have had something to do with his little brother missing: "It's wrong what you did," Misheka said. "You did wrong. You deserve to pay. Whatever the law gives you, whatever happens to you in the court of justice, I'm sorry but you got what you deserved. You should probably think about it and maybe ask God for forgiveness because you're going to have a lot to answer for when you pass away and I'll pray for you, myself." Misheka tells us that the pond the FBI was planning on draining behind a home on Baseline Road was drained Wednesday and that they didn't find anything.
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