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DETROIT (AP) — Police investigating the disappearance of a 13-
year-old Detroit boy found his body Thursday in an empty lot on
the city's east side and announced the arrest of a key suspect
in Ohio.

Deontae Mitchell's mother, Crystal Mitchell, identified her
son's body, and an autopsy is planned for Friday morning,
according to the Wayne County medical examiner's office.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig offered his "heart and prayers"
to the boy's family and called it a "horrific crime."

"We're talking about a defenseless child. An adult male with a
gun," Craig said at a news conference earlier Thursday. "Once
again, another coward preying on children, and that needs to
stop."

Deontae disappeared Tuesday night while riding bikes with a
cousin, who told police that Deontae had picked up money dropped
by a man who was urinating outside a market.

Video shows Deontae being pursued by a man who grabbed the boy
by his arm and forced him into a car.


Police believe that man was Gregory Walker, 45, of Detroit, who
was arrested Thursday with a woman in Toledo, Ohio. Walker
hasn't been charged.

But Craig noted that two more men were wanted by police in what
he called "very much an active investigation." One of them, a 30-
year-old from Detroit, was arrested Thursday in his home; he was
not immediately charged. A 51-year-old man still is being sought.

Late Thursday morning, police combed through knee- to waist-high
weeds and grass in an empty lot behind a vacant one-story
building that once housed a men's clothing shop and a tax
service.

About three dozen people gathered nearby, some praying for the
boy's family, the neighborhood and the city.

Madgrine Jones, 35, cried, saying "the spirit led me here." A
security guard at a cemetery, Jones didn't know the victim and
is not acquainted with his family, but has children of her own.

"It hurts. It hurts," she told The Associated Press, tears
streaming down her face. "Why can't we go back to when people
spoke up? We got babies being killed. It's just too much. I pray
for the family. I pray for the city. I pray for our kids."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/detroit-police- looking-for-man-in-boy-s-abduction/article_4a1dc4db-07e8-50ba- 8429-f5c8343f3fcb.html
 

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