Found Deceased GA - J'Asiah Mitchell, 2, DeKalb Co., 16 Aug 2023 *father arrested*

[Leilei]

I wonder how old the other children in the house are, whether they'd be reliable witnesses.

Was wondering the same.

 

[Allabouttrial]

I wonder how old the other children in the house are, whether they'd be reliable witnesses.

I'm not convinced there were other children in the house.

 

[LauraAnne]

Crews are now draining the pond on the apartment complex property.

 

[Leilei]

Cody Alcorn is reporting that they are searching a landfill and drained a pond.

 

[vls12345]

Crews continue draining manmade lake at apartment after father claimed 2-year-old was kidnapped

Just after 8:15 p.m. Thursday, DeKalb police said they found no signs of an armed robbery or kidnapping and determined that it was a false report.

www.wsbtv.com

[snip]

Channel 2′s Audrey Washington was at the Lakeview Place apartments in East Point Friday, where crews worked all afternoon to drain the large lake while family members of the toddler looked on.

“It’s really critical. This is a 2-year-old boy,” Ischa Njoku with the East Point Police Department said. “We have to find this boy.”

North was arrested by DeKalb County police and charged with false statements and false reports of a crime. He was already in jail on an unrelated crime at the time of his arrest.

[snip]

Njoku said police are not looking at anyone else as a suspect in the child’s disappearance.

 

[vls12345]

Everything we know about a missing 2-year-old, his father’s arrest in DeKalb County

J’Asiah Mitchell, 2, was seen shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 16 at Aspen Woods Apartments in Decatur.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

• On Friday, investigators moved the search to a body of water near North’s apartment complex. Authorities are in the process of draining the lake.
• Griffin Landfill is another search area in the case.

 

[citizen_sleuth]

Everything we know about a missing 2-year-old, his father’s arrest in DeKalb County

J’Asiah Mitchell, 2, was seen shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 16 at Aspen Woods Apartments in Decatur.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

Searching a pond and a landfill... poor J’Asiah, I have a feeling this isn’t going to end well.

 

[Leilei]

Everything we know about a missing 2-year-old, his father’s arrest in DeKalb County

J’Asiah Mitchell, 2, was seen shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 16 at Aspen Woods Apartments in Decatur.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

That's about a 45 minute drive, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

 

[Peppery]

I'm not convinced there were other children in the house.

Makes me hope there aren’t other children or they didn’t see anything. This reminds me a little of Lonzie Barton and I’m sure his sister lives with trauma from what she saw.

 

[Allabouttrial]

Makes me hope there aren’t other children or they didn’t see anything. This reminds me a little of Lonzie Barton and I’m sure his sister lives with trauma from what she saw.

Yeah Lonzie Barton came to my mind when I heard the kidnapping story.

 

[vls12345]

Grandfather of missing DeKalb toddler calls search surreal, asks for help in finding him

Search efforts were focused around an East Point apartment complex again Friday.

www.11alive.com

""Somebody's got some answers, just please say something," J'Asiah's grandfather Jonathan Wyatt pleaded Friday.

Wyatt said the search has been surreal as more agencies became involved and it has expanded. Police officers have collected evidence - but there are still no answers.

"I can't even put some of it in words," Wyatt said. "People don't understand, you see stuff like this all the time on TV, but it don't hit home."

 

[Leilei]

I keep checking social media for updates on the pond/landfill searches, but it's gone eerily quiet.

 

[shotgun09]

Is there no Community organized search for baby J'Asiah?
Did everyone just go home, and shut the door?
Where are LE searching? What is the plan?

Poor little dude.
Looking at his photos, He has 'Sweet Georgia Peaches' for cheeks, just like my Grandlittle. My heart hurts.

Peace

 

[Chimera]

Crews continue draining manmade lake at apartment after father claimed 2-year-old was kidnapped

Just after 8:15 p.m. Thursday, DeKalb police said they found no signs of an armed robbery or kidnapping and determined that it was a false report.

www.wsbtv.com

Thanks for the link !
So... the father was already incarcerated, or was not home -- at the time J'Asiah went 'missing' ?

I'd imagine that LE have spoken to other family members ?
Omo.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Bond was denied for the father.

 

[vls12345]

Thanks for the link !
So... the father was already incarcerated, or was not home -- at the time J'Asiah went 'missing' ?

I'd imagine that LE have spoken to other family members ?
Omo.

My understanding (based on articles I've read & posted & that others have posted here) is that the father reported him 'taken' late Wednesday night. (Wondering if J'Asiah was supposed to go back to his mom on Thursday? And if something had happened to J'Asiah, the father might have thought he needed a story to explain why J'Asiah was missing.)

By Thursday morning/afternoon, it was looking like LE & the family (his mother/grandparents) weren't believing the father's story.

Thursday night/early Friday morning the father was arrested for making false statements (I guess about J'Asiah being 'taken').

The search for J'Asiah, as far as I know, is still ongoing.

Search continues for missing 2-year-old J'Asiah Mitchell in East Point as father denied bond

The search continued Saturday morning for a 2-year-old DeKalb boy who has disappeared.

www.fox5atlanta.com

 

[Jovi Girl]

Bumping to keep this one on the first page in Missing. Where is this lil guy ? I’m sad that we all are thinking the same.

 

[swanniee11]

Is there no Community organized search for baby J'Asiah?
Did everyone just go home, and shut the door?
Where are LE searching? What is the plan?

Poor little dude.
Looking at his photos, He has 'Sweet Georgia Peaches' for cheeks, just like my Grandlittle. My heart hurts.

Peace

The mother posted on her sons' help find FB that there is a search party going on at 4pm today. Bring drinks, snacks etc, they were hitting 4 different locations.

 

[vls12345]

Search for missing 2-year-old expands, lake drained, landfill searched

Crews fully drained a small lake in East Point near where J’asiah’s father lives, but their search yielded nothing.

www.wsbtv.com

Hard to believe it's been five days...

J’asiah’s grandmother, Lariesa Mitchell, said they won’t stop searching for him.

“My daughter wants to look for her son, so that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to look wherever she wants to look, wherever she wants to go. Whatever idea she comes up with and thinks she might need to go check it out, we’re right behind her,” she said.