Found Deceased FL - Vensly Maxime, 14, Royal Palm Beach, 22 Dec 2021

[Unalienable Rights]

https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-...rader-from-palm-beach-county-reported-missing

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — An eighth-grader at Crestwood Middle School in Royal Palm Beach has been reported missing, the Palm Beach County School District's Police Department said Thursday night.

Vensly Maxime, 14, was last seen at approximately 4:45 p.m. Wednesday in the area of the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center at 100 Sweet Bay Lane, the school district said.

Maxime, who is 5-foot-7 and weighs 120 pounds, was wearing a navy blue t-shirt, black pants and gray shoes.

If you see or come into contact with Maxime contact your local law enforcement or School Police Detective
Wagner at 561-434-8700.

School District Police is asking for your help in locating a missing teenager. Vensly Maxime, 14 years old @CWood_Eagles student, was last seen near the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center on December 22. Report tips to 561-434-8700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-485-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/1ejtTQX3Vb

— The School District of Palm Beach County (@pbcsd) December 24, 2021

 

[Unalienable Rights]

This is very sad and unexpected. Praying for his family and friends.

Body of a student pulled out of a canal on Christmas

A Royal Palm Beach middle school student who went missing since Wednesday has been found dead during the evening hours on Christmas Day.

The body of the 14-year-old boy was found in the canal near Crestwood Middle School and the Recreation Center at the intersection of Sparrow Drive and Sweet Bay Lane, the Palm Beach School District said. The circumstances on how he died have not been released.

Though the name wasn't released, the school district had posted on Twitter that Vensly Maxime, 14, of Royal Palm Beach was last seen in the area of the Recreation Center on Wednesday. Maxime was in the eighth grade at Crestwood.
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Palm Beach County sheriff deputies are investigating, and crime scene tape blocked the entrance of the recreation center. The sheriff’s office Champlin, grief counselors and school board members were on scene to comfort the family.

“Today I worked with the family on Christmas day to have hope that we would find our student," District 6 Board Member Marcia Andrews said. We got the news this afternoon that he had been found in the canal and he had passed away. We are praying for the family and praying for our student who is in heaven now. It was just a bad situation, and the family is devastated.

She added" We are out here at the school, at the canal, retrieving his body and so much sadness on Christmas. We have sympathy for the family and for all the students at the school here at Crestwood. We will do our best to get through this.”

Andrews said once school returns, grief counselors will be at the school.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Sincere condolences to his family. I am very sorry for your loss.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

He was found so close to where he went missing, it seems strange that the schoolboard police didn't find him when they searched. It makes me wonder how much time they spent looking and what resources were used. It was members of his family who found him when they conducted their own search. I hope that a thorough investigation will be done into cause of death.

There is a map at the link.

Royal Palm Beach: Body found in canal believed to be missing student

 

[Unalienable Rights]

The sheriff's office says that Vensly might have had a medical episode. His family thinks there was foul play.

https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-...ntion-pound-may-have-suffered-medical-episode

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Royal Palm Beach middle school student found dead in a retention pond Christmas night may have suffered a medical episode before entering the water and drowning wasn't a factor, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Monday night.

In an update from PBSO on Monday night, detectives learned that Vensly and a friend met up after school.
The friend then reported that Vensly started to not feel well, so the friend said they started walking home.

For unknown reasons, PBSO said, Vensly began to act in
an unusual manner. The friend continued home and Vensly remained behind in the area of the Recreation Center.

In conjunction with Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office, PBSO said there were no signs of trauma or injury to the decedent.
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As they stood at the memorial growing in front of Crestwood Middle School on Monday, Maxime’s family struggled with many emotions.

"I'm not OK. I probably will never be OK because somebody killed my little cousin," Dian Eliance said.

Eliance said the family believes someone is responsible for Maxime’s death. "We all want to know who did it. We all want to know why," Eliance said.
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Family members are also upset over what they said has been a lack of response to their first reports of Maxime’s disappearance . Family members said they were largely out on their own to look for the teen, until they found him Christmas day in shallow water.

"We don’t get full information. We looking for information and guess what? We find out the body, we have to come on Christmas day we find our own body by the rec center and the lake we find him my husband, my brother in law my sister in law they find him and this is not good," Eliance said.

PBSO said they along with the school police were part of the investigation and PBSO by Thursday had as many as six uniformed personnel and a school detective searching along with drones, a helicopter, and a search and rescue dog.

(If Vensly wasn't feeling well when walking home with his friend, and started acting "in an unusual manner," it seems strange that the friend would just leave him and continue on his way!)

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I feel it's unacceptable that his family found him. It's heartbreaking and needs a formal review.
Can you imagine?
I hope the autopsy is completed by a very competent / experienced person.

 

[evilwise]

Sadly, it's completely normal for family members to find their loved one's body. It just isn't usually after three days. That's abnormal. For there to be no evidence of drowning is abnormal. For the area to have been previously searched is abnormal.

It could suggest the body being moved but I believe @Unalienable Rights and I might be of the same mind, that this was a case where teens were maybe doing something they shouldn't have been that resulted in Vensley becoming distressed and in need of help but his companions (I won't say "friends") were more afraid of getting into trouble than for what might happen to him.

What seems most likely to be is that he went into the water and became entangled in or stuck under something that then hid his body from the initial searches and it came loose after a couple days. However you would think there would be evidence of drowning.

 

[lunarbear86]

Community members are once again calling for justice for Vensly Maxime.

https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-...me-asks-for-full-investigation-into-his-death

 

[ChatteringBirds]

From February 2022:

PBSO rules death of teen found in pond on Christmas Day an accidental drowning

Family members found Vensly Maxime's body on Christmas Day, three days after he had gone missing on his way home from Crestwood Middle School.

eu.palmbeachpost.com

His family still had questions, such as why they were told he didn't have water in his lungs if he's a drowning victim and why LE isn't doing more to find out who provided marijuana to him. [And, IMO, other minors?]
His family indicated they felt LE prematurely closed the case.
JMO.

After Feb. 2022, I don't find additional updates, however.

 

[NeverPersonal]

From February 2022:

PBSO rules death of teen found in pond on Christmas Day an accidental drowning

Family members found Vensly Maxime's body on Christmas Day, three days after he had gone missing on his way home from Crestwood Middle School.

eu.palmbeachpost.com

His family still had questions, such as why they were told he didn't have water in his lungs if he's a drowning victim and why LE isn't doing more to find out who provided marijuana to him. [And, IMO, other minors?]
His family indicated they felt LE prematurely closed the case.
JMO.

After Feb. 2022, I don't find additional updates, however.

dry drowning?
laced marijuana (yes, this tragically is a thing) or K2 disguised as weed?

 

[caradana]

This case interests me in a sociological and psychosocial sense, in that: I feel so much compassion and empathy for the family even as I don’t believe there was an aggressor in this case, I don’t believe this young man was a homicide. I can totally see where in their shoes I would believe it was so, and my heart would want so badly for it to be true. A lot of layers to unpack here. What a sad story.