Found Safe FL - Braxton, 6, & Bri’ya Williams, 5, seen playing in yard, Jacksonville, 15 Dec 2019

[PayrollNerd]

So someone in the home but it was not the father? Possibly an older sibling? The father's sibling, parent, etc? Hmmm.

 

[alyssa5597]

So someone in the home but it was not the father? Possibly an older sibling? The father's sibling, parent, etc? Hmmm.

No, I think they still meant it could have been the father or someone else, but I don't think we can rule out the father as who called from what he said. They asked him that in the news conference and he said "I was told a family member was someone who called it in. It was a family member in the residence. I haven't been told the relationship to that family member as of yet." I think he legitimately just doesn't know who called. He didn't know most things and even acknowledged that all he knew was when they were last seen and where they are missing from. He didn't even know if it was a 911 call.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Is it possible the mother of the children does not live at that residence and perhaps picked them up?
Has a family member been on the news giving any more information? Especially with the autism reference in the media.

 

[alyssa5597]

There are only two entrances to the mobile home park and a lot of dead ends. Seems like a risky place to drive into to kidnap kids and make a clean getaway.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The Truckers Missing Child Project

Officers were contacted at 1:30 p.m.

“The complainant advised they were playing in front of a residence and were last seen at around 11:30 a.m. prior to going missing,” a statement from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

The Amber Alert was issued at 5:15 p.m.

Braxton has a form of autism called Asperger syndrome. He will communicate with others, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.
AMBER ALERT: Jacksonville Siblings — Ages 5, 6 — Missing from Home

 

[alyssa5597]

Two sex offenders live in the mobile home park:

1. SEX BAT BY ADULT/VCTM UNDER 12; F.S. 794.011(2) (PRINCIPAL IN ATTEMPT) from 09/14/1992
2. SEX OFFENSE, OTHER STATE (INDECENCY WITH CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT - STATE OF TEXAS) from 11/20/1992

 

[modesty blaise]

Is there water nearby?

 

[alyssa5597]

Is there water nearby?

They said they had dive teams out and we're searching ponds in the news conference. The woods around the mobile home park are too dense to see via satellite. The complex also has a pool but I presume that was one of the first things checked.

 

[alyssa5597]

"Now we've been talking to family members out here who tell us the children's father lives in this neighborhood." Video by Kailey Tracy on Twitter

"Just talked to a family member of the two missing children. She was very frantic and said the children’s father lives in this neighborhood"Kailey Tracy on Twitter

 

[alyssa5597]

A family member tells me the house with the police car out front is where the Williams family lives. One tells me that both parents were inside at the time the kids went missing. Troy Kless on Twitter

 

[alyssa5597]

"This couple says they take a walk daily in the neighborhood and said at 11:50 am today they were out and saw a woman in a dark colored car who came “speeding out.” They say they saw two kids in the backseat, don’t know if it’s connected, and are talking with JSO now" Kailey Tracy on Twitter

Transcription of video:
Man: "We were walking down the entrance back towards our trailer and there was a woman that came speeding out and I had to jerk her (referencing significant other) out of the way she was going so fast and the woman had two kids in the back seat..."
Woman: "The boy was on the left side of the car and he had his hands up on the window... and we didn't think anything about it I mean... but then when they said they were last seen at 11:30 it kind of jogged our memory as to what we had saw"

 

[alyssa5597]

"Officers also took pictures of the neighborhood’s map pictured below." Kailey Tracy on Twitter

Looks like there is a pond right in the front of the complex.

 

[Steelslady]

The reporters in the news conference indicated that family members at the scene told them it was the father's home.

Have they located the father yet?

 

[alyssa5597]

Have they located the father yet?

I don't think he was ever missing. The question the reporter asked was "Where are the parents right now?" I think the news conference guy made a poor choice of words and quite literally meant he personally did not know where the parents were at that exact moment. He couldn't answer any of the questions about the investigation and quite literally said all he really knew was where and when they went missing.

"A family member...tells me that both parents were inside at the time the kids went missing."

 

[Steelslady]

A family member tells me the house with the police car out front is where the Williams family lives. One tells me that both parents were inside at the time the kids went missing. Troy Kless on Twitter

It took all of this time to determine that the parents were inside at the time the kids went missing?

 

[momrids6]

This is from 2009- and area is definitely not better. Beaver St is pretty industrial- a lot of warehouses, manufacturing. 3 shift type jobs. Has its own Exits on and off of I-95/295
https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2009/06/22/daily5.html

 

[alyssa5597]

It took all of this time to determine that the parents were inside at the time the kids went missing?

Well, I presume LE may have known that from the moment they arrived...the tweet at 6:43pm is just from when family members gave that information to the reporter. I'm sure the family members have also been talking to LE the entire day.

 

[musicaljoke]

It took all of this time to determine that the parents were inside at the time the kids went missing?

Probably the whereabouts of each parent will be checked by LE, since the word of a family member might not be sufficient to establish the facts.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[imstilla.grandma]