NOV 19, 2021
Cleveland missing Black women Rajah McQueen Audreonna Barnes (spectrumnews1.com)
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At the time of her disappearance, McQueen was a student studying music at Rosedale Bible College. Her faith was important to her, and it’s evident in her music. In the opening lines of her EP “Warfare Born Again,” she raps, “Got on my knees, my soul used to be, I cried out to God and he gave me peace.”
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Cameras operated by the City of Cleveland show McQueen in the passenger seat of her 2018 Nissan Sentra on June 26 at 7:30 a.m. at a gas station on East 131 Street and Harvard Avenue.
Surveillance video shows the car leaving the gas station, and then reemerging about three hours later heading west on Harvard Avenue toward Broadway Avenue, only this time McQueen isn’t in the vehicle. What appears to be a bullet hole can be seen on the passenger side of the car, and the hubcaps and the license plate listed to McQueen were removed. Police said the vehicle has not been seen since.
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The Cleveland Police Department has made advances in McQueen’s case, according to Kevin Callahan, the detective in CPD’s fourth district. He said that more than 1,000 hours have been put into the case, recruiting other agencies as well to get search warrants, pull phone records and conduct searches using drones, helicopters and canines.
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Kirkland and the McQueen family said Callahan has been in constant contact with them, offering updates, explaining leads and even offered a listening ear when they have an intuition about Rajah’s whereabouts.
“Even on days where there's no news, he still calls and he just says, ‘Listen, we're still throwing forward. You know, this is a little bit of a tougher case to crack but we are pushing forward,’” Kirkland said.
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