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The last time JoAnn Stovall had contact with her granddaughter, Samone Jackson, was in early 2021. Almost two years have gone by without contact with the now 25-year-old woman, who spent much of her childhood in Stovall’s home.
Stovall raised Jackson from the time she was 5. About a year after graduating from high school, Jackson moved in with her grandfather. Eventually, she and a boyfriend moved into an apartment with two roommates on Warwick Boulevard in midtown. That was the last her grandfather saw of her.
“He hasn’t seen her for a year,” Stovall said. She said the grandfather has exchanged messages from someone texting from Jackson’s phone. “But he can tell immediately it wasn’t Samone because of the way she texts,” Stovall said.
Jackson’s disappearance is particularly mystifying to her family because her then-boyfriend is still living in the same apartment, but Jackson’s family has no contact with him.
After establishing a case, the police spoke with the boyfriend. Officers informed Stovall that, according to the boyfriend, he and Jackson broke up and she doesn’t want to be contacted by her family.
Police have no obligation to disclose the whereabouts of an adult or return someone to their family. But with no way to verify that Jackson is well, Stovall continues to worry about the safety of her granddaughter.
“They said she’s OK. And so I don’t think that they filed the missing report. It’s like they closed the books on her because they said she’s OK,” she said
As Black women go missing in Kansas City, Black community looks to itself for solutions
After the Kansas City Police Department denied community claims of women missing along Prospect Avenue, Black community members are creating their own missing-persons databases other resources to find missing individuals.
www.kcur.org
