A Florida family is searching for answers after a 13-year-old boy was found dead near a Tallahassee Walmart.
Darius Swain, 13, was last seen on July 23 in Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement began an investigation on July 24 and issued a Missing Child Alert for the teen on the 25th. But late in the night of July 25, the body of a child was found in a wooded area near a Walmart on West Tennessee Street. Authorities publicly confirmed the body as Swain’s on Aug. 3.
Now Swain’s family is searching for answers. The teen’s father, Derrick Swain, told the Tallahassee Democrat investigators said his son died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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“I don’t understand,” Derrick said. “He was such a happy kid. He would never do that.” Swain was looking forward to his upcoming eighth grade year at Sanford Middle School in the fall. The teen lives in Sanford, Florida, with his mother but was in Tallahassee to visit his father and aunt over the summer.
According to family members, Swain walked to the Family Dollar on Blountstown Highway in the afternoon hours of July 23 and was not seen alive afterward. He had been playing basketball in the area before setting out to make the trip to the store.
On Aug. 5, the family held a vigil at the Family Dollar where Swain was last seen alive. Swain’s aunt played a video at the vigil of her nephew laughing.
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