VA - Aveion Lewis, 2, Roanoke, 14 January 2010 #1

[tehcloser]

Again, Aveion was taken Thursday evening, between 5 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

"She was like the kids, the kids! And she went looking around. So I raced upstairs," said Lockett.

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11826595

So step dad, after I assume being unconscious from 5 to 6:45, comes to, jumps to his feet and races upstairs? ummmm.....I don't know how many of you have ever been knocked out, but you usually don't just jump up and rum anywhere. When you do come to, you are in a fog.

 

[MBLover]

for Soulscape to properly put a chart together we need this info verified::

what time did event at home occur:
stepfather's birth information:
mother's birth information:

court records for traffic violations of the step father leave the proper birth day in question. News reports of when incident occurred have changed, also leaving the event in question.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/233017

Officers were called to the 2100 block of King Charles Avenue Southeast about 6:40 p.m., where a woman told officers her son, Aveion M. Lewis, was abducted, said Roanoke Police Capt. Curtis Davis.

I know the word "about" is in there but have seen this as 6:40 and 6:41 as to when the police arrived.

The court records do give both 10/8 and 8/10 as BL's DOB. However, IMO (which I know means nothing in the grand scheme of things) there are more infractions with the DOB of 10/8 than the 8/10 date.

I still cannot come up with anything in records searches for anything else regarding BL, but I'm still looking.

 

[MBLover]

I have confirmed thru a source that the DOB of BL is 10/8/85. I have sent an email to Soulscape, so hopefully a chart can be done soon. I explained my source to Soulscape, but cannot explain it here for the potential trouble it could cause this person.

 

[annalyzer]

Again, Aveion was taken Thursday evening, between 5 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

"She was like the kids, the kids! And she went looking around. So I raced upstairs," said Lockett.

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11826595

So step dad, after I assume being unconscious from 5 to 6:45, comes to, jumps to his feet and races upstairs? ummmm.....I don't know how many of you have ever been knocked out, but you usually don't just jump up and rum anywhere. When you do come to, you are in a fog.

Based on my experience in watching boxing matches a person is generally only unconscious a few seconds after being knocked out. Googling and trying to find an average time a person is unconscious....

http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/aches/concussion.html

 

[tehcloser]

Based on my experience in watching boxing matches a person is generally only unconscious a few seconds after being knocked out. Googling and trying to find an average time a person is unconscious....

http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/aches/concussion.html

That's what I thought too, but the way it reads and if they don't know the exact time.......I'm guessing he is saying he was out the whole time? :waitasec:

 

[annalyzer]

This guy has been knocked unconscious three times. Even as the result of a severe car crash he was only unconscious a few minutes.

http://gutrumbles.com/archives2/002356.php

 

[Salem]

Watching the mother in the video with her head held down and eyes averted from the camera tells a lot. In the one video with the stepfather he holds his head down when speaking of the abduction then lifts his head and looks at the camera when speaking of the child's illness. The four year old is tied up and gagged. The only one of the children old enough to tell what they knew. Parent(s) could've tied her up and gagged her while she was asleep, and from behind, so she wouldn't see anything. And very often in family abuse one child is singled out and abused. I'm still on the fence with this one but my hinky meter is off the chart.

annalyzer - I agree with you. I have rewatched the videos. At first I thought the stepfather was being honest because of the way he acted when he talked about Aveion's illness. But after re-watching it, I think I have come to a different conclusion. As for the mother, where she is leaning up against the wall and looking down and out - I see grief in her face - not fear, worry, begging, or desperation but out and out grief. I'm reserving an opinion on that, but it doesn't look good to me.

Also, the comment "we told police everything we know" leaves me feeling something bad has happened and in fact, they have NOT told the police everything they know. At first I thought it was just the way the article was written, but now I'm not so sure.

We still do not have answers to the question of who, outside the family, saw this child last and/or where? That's a big flag to me.

Prayers this child comes home alive and soon,

Salem

 

[fhc]

The fact that the stepfather called this a "charade" in a video interview is disturbing.

 

[darlin gal]

The search continues this holiday to find missing toddler Aveion Lewis. Police believe this child is in extreme danger. They are hoping for the best, but fear the worst. Even though it is a holiday, I spoke with Roanoke City Police Spokesperson Johnson this morning, and she says investigators are still on the ground today fielding tips.

http://www.michellesigona.com/

 

[Amster]

If this guy was knocked out in the dining room, why did he wake up in the living room? Perps drag him there? Stepdad says he was dozing off at 6:30pm? With a 4 year old and 3 toddlers in the house?? HINK

 

[looneymama]

I think it's strange that he remembers as much as he does. I've only seen people knocked out for a few seconds and when they've come to they are usually disoriented and don't even remember what happened. They've also been too dizzy to jump up and run up stairs

 

[Cubby]

"As soon as I opened up the door, I heard BAM and just braced myself for impact," said Lockett.

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11826595

?? ...imo, strange wording unless one opens a door and in one split second realization(his) and action(assault) takes place.

Prayers for Aveion's safe return.

This statement from step dad makes no sense. He opens the door, thus where does the "bam" he heard come from? A swinging anything doesn't create at bam sound, at best it would create a swoosh sound. (unless someone pushed it open so hard there was a bam if the door slammed into a wall- creating a dent, which, imo, could clearly be determined how new it was. Wouldn't an older dent show signs of age, dirt, finger prints from little kids?) A bam, imo, would be someone beating/breaking open the door. Dad clearly stated "I opened the door". Which leads me to wonder, what kind of doors do these units have? Every town home community I have seen, (and I was a licensed realtor for about 5 years) either have 9 panel glass pain doors, or a solid glass window of the same size without panels where one can see through the doors at eye level, or they have a solid door with a peep hole or a solid door with an arched half circle shaped glass paneling higher than eye level with a peep hole. I can not think of a sold door, the few times I have seen solid doors with no windows ( which, were installed by the township for low income seniors who qualified for home improvements ) without a peep hole.

Which leads me to believe, IF dad saw some 'creepy people' hanging around that he asked to leave, WHY would he open the door to strangers when he wasn't expecting anyone and ESPECIALLY after being 'concerned' about shady characters he was not comfortable with hanging around his home. It makes zero sense. Lets for a moment say even if the door did not have a peep hole(which I doubt), these are town homes. I am going to guess are no wider than 20'-25' interiors and EACH has a front window. Why, would he not look out the window to see who was at the front door?

Dads story is just not making sense to me now..........

I think I am going to see if I can find out exactly what type door these town homes have. I am also going to assume, none are 'owner occupied', or individually owned.

MBLover- do you know if these are owned by the housing development in the area, or are they private owners who have chosen to go through HUD to rent their properties? I ask because if it is a government entity, they are more likely to have the same doors, where as individual private owners would not. thanks!

 

[Cubby]

I suddenly have a very bad feeling about this. I pray I am wrong, but the following theory crossed my mind after my last post.

What if, this was staged by step dad. That step dad dozed off, he had the two youngest up in their cribs, thus they were there.... and the four and almost 3 year old got up while dad was sleeping. What if Aveion got hurt, got into something and accidently died. What if dad, not knowing what to do and not wanting to lose custody of the rest of the kids called his 3 'friends' and agreed to the ransom thing, when he was really offering them 10,000 to dispose of Aveions body and make it appear as a robbery and kidnapping with the house ransacked. The two different hand writtings on the ransom note are kind of hinky imo, what if the plan was to have two people write the note to 'confirm' more than one person was in the house?

Does anyone know which parent the Wards are related to? Are they relatives of moms or step dads? Just curious....... thanks!



I sure hope LE is analyzing the handwriting on that ransom note.

 

[Cubby]

I hope this link works. This is a link to the street level zoomed in google map of their address. I believe this is their unit. While I can't make out the door too clearly, it looks like there is a window towards the top wich may have been covered with a wooden board? Kind of hard to tell..... but clearly the windows are close enough to see who is standing in front of a door.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&s...code_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA

ok, I guess that didn't work as I hoped, but going to street level for the address listed in the news article you will see what I mean.

Another interesting observation. Parked on the street, in the google street level view is what appears to be a white SUV. Maybe I can see what type it is with further searching the street level. Why I find this curious is, in these kind of neighborhoods people move often. I wonder if the owner of that white SUV seen parked on the street is still residing in the neighborhood, or recently moved. Sure would be a coincidence if step dad knew they recently moved and happened to tie a white SUV into this knowing if he did so, his former neighbors would be none the wiser. Hmmmmm........

ETA: News article with address mentioned is in post 232 above, in the quoted post from Capoly.. in that linked article.

ETA: My mistake, the white car I see parked on the street is a minivan, NOT an SUV.

 

[MBLover]

As much as I want to believe this kidnapping is real...something in my gut keeps over ruling that belief. I'm going to try and write out my thoughts...to see which way they take me. If I ramble, I'm sorry.

BL sees 3 guys in area close to his housing unit early on in the day and he asks them to move on? Him being one guy, supposedly in his home alone with children, why does he feel the need to 'confront' these people?

If there were 3 guys outside his home, what exactly alerted BL to these guys? Were they making some kind of ruckus? If BL knew these 3 men weren't supposed to be there then why didn't he call the cops - whether or not he felt they were up to some kind of nefarious activity? All he had to do was ask for the cops to roll thru the neighborhood, he could have requested that he did not want to speak to LE.

IF he confronted these 3 alleged kidnappers in any manner, he's bound to have perceived that there could be some retaliatory kind of action for him making any kind of comment to them.

BL has been at home all day(?) or biggest part of the day with 4 young children. 3 of those children cannot really fend for themselves - meaning they have a lot of needs that need to be met (feeding, changing diapers, potty training, etc.). That's a lot for any one person to deal with, especially one who may feel they are cooped up and are taking care of children, some of who do not biologically belong to him. And especially one of those children has special needs and requires more attention than the average 2 yr old.

Wife was out of the house. One can only guess that she may have been at work? Was BL tired of being the 'housedad'?

Seems the unit was ransacked. Why? What were these alleged guys looking for? And why would they wreck the living area where most things are out in plain sight. I can see ransacking the master bedroom - looking for jewelry, drugs, money or the bathroom looking for drugs there as well.

Ransacking causes lots of noise. These units are joined together and what goes on in one unit is likely going to be heard in the units on either side. Did anyone hear anything unusual? A couch flipping is going to make quite a thud, IMO. I can see the 3 alleged perps not taking the tv...but if they are that angry...bent on causing destruction...then why didn't they bash the tv?

The 'wounds' on BL don't seem to match, IMO, what he said happened. I could probably cause the same wounds bashing my head into a cabinet door. If he was knocked out and was out that long, IMO, he should have been checked out by medical personnel. An injury that serious would lead me to believe that he must have had a major concussion. Dead weight hitting the floor (the side of a table or chair or other piece of furniture) would have caused his head to bounce and he should have had a large goose egg somewhere on his head and possible bruising elsewhere on his body if he hit anything on the way down. Would be nice to know if this was noted by LE or EMT.

Seems to me he has minor wounds for someone that had been knocked out for a long period of time which gives me the feeling that it's been staged. Same with the ransacking - staged. Cannot believe that 3 guys aren't going to find something of value. A CD or DVD collection...something.

3 people are going to go to all this trouble. They just so happen to have restraining materials on their persons and ones ties up the 4 yr old but leaves the big guy on the floor unrestrained while one ransacks the unit and one writes the ransom note...then another perp finds time to write something else on the note...

Nah... I'm still of the opinion that something else entirely took place.

Maybe something accidentally happened to Aveion and someone didn't believe that the story would be believed? And an 'elaborate' cover-up was planned.

 

[MBLover]

Respectfully snipped:

MBLover- do you know if these are owned by the housing development in the area, or are they private owners who have chosen to go through HUD to rent their properties? I ask because if it is a government entity, they are more likely to have the same doors, where as individual private owners would not. thanks!

Cubby - these housing units are owned by HUD and come under the Roanoke Valley Housing and Redevelopment Authority. There are several of these housing areas in the Roanoke Valley. None of these units here have private owners.

ETA: Looks like we're on the same wave length...

 

[Calliope]

Again, Aveion was taken Thursday evening, between 5 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

"She was like the kids, the kids! And she went looking around. So I raced upstairs," said Lockett.

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11826595

So step dad, after I assume being unconscious from 5 to 6:45, comes to, jumps to his feet and races upstairs? ummmm.....I don't know how many of you have ever been knocked out, but you usually don't just jump up and rum anywhere. When you do come to, you are in a fog.

He's claiming he was out cold for an hour and a half? And (as was pointed out earlier in the thread) he's knocked out at the back door in the dining room, but awakens in the living room?

The child is obviously missing, but it didn't happen the way he claims. Poor baby

 

[Calliope]

http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/233017

Officers were called to the 2100 block of King Charles Avenue Southeast about 6:40 p.m., where a woman told officers her son, Aveion M. Lewis, was abducted, said Roanoke Police Capt. Curtis Davis.

I know the word "about" is in there but have seen this as 6:40 and 6:41 as to when the police arrived.

Have they released the 911 tape?

 

[MBLover]

Have they released the 911 tape?

Not to my knowledge

 

[Cubby]

MLBlover you are so right on money! Especially with regards to sound within units similiar to these. I live in a smaller th style condo built in the early 70's. Back then dry wall was nailed in, they did not use dry wall screws like they do now until many years later because of the nails popping out all the time. I can tell everyone that my stairs run parallel to the neighbors behind me and I can hear them running up or down stairs when that happens. The neighbor on the other side of the wall- his kitchen is behind the wall where I have my couch. I can literally hear his cabinet doors close, and I can hear the spin cycle on his washing machine. The walls are thin, and I believe, at least in my area (IL) firecodes were such at the time, they did not have to have any kind of cement fire wall between units. While I am in IL, and not in VA, I have seen this style of TH from the early 70's all over. They were a very common inexpensive unit at the time they were built and I am sure the sound proof or lack of it is similiar in all of these style units.

I find it highly unlikely no one heard this ruckus, unless the unit next to them is currently vacant. It looks like they are on an end unit ( which are usually larger interior sq footage than inner units from my experience.)