A 12-year-old boy in Buffalo, N.Y. told his family on August 4, 2020 that was just going up the street to the grocery store. However, he never returned. After four years, police are now opening a homicide investigation into the boy’s disappearance.
Monday, Buffalo police confirmed the remains found in the attic of a home over the weekend were that of Jaylen Griffin, the Black boy who vanished four years ago. He was last seen at a corner store. Two days later, he was reported missing. Over the years, police did everything they could to find the preteen.
Exhaustive searches launched with teams of police and K-9 units in fields and throughout the city of the Buffalo. The department even followed up on tips from multiple psychics who tried to locate the boy. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also rendered an image of what the boy would look like as a teenager.
However, Friday morning, a tragic report came in from a maintenance worker doing work on a house on Sheffield Avenue. Dispatch recordings reveal the worker discovered Griffin’s body when he went to do work in the attic, per WGRZ News. The worker didn’t note any decomposition odors.
Source: Four-Year Search for Missing Black Boy Comes to a Haunting End
