After a boy’s body was discovered in the woods at a park behind a Lithonia suburb, DeKalb County police launched an investigation.
Police say that on Monday, at around 4:20 p.m., they received a report to the 2600 block of Parkway Trail where they found the corpse of a male kid in the woods. Homes there border Lithonia Park on both sides.
The child’s age and identity have not yet been made public, and the authorities have not made any statements concerning the facts of his passing.
When FOX 5 spoke with the mom, she revealed that the boy was Jamiren Crosby, her 13-year-old son. According to Chanell Crosby, her kid vanished early on Saturday and hasn’t been seen since.
“He was my helper, he’d help me with my little daughter and my youngest son,” Crosby told FOX 5. “He was a real person. All he wanted was real around him—real love–wanted to be loved by his family.”
A straight “A” student in the eighth grade at DeKalb Alternative School, according to Jamiren’s mother. He recently signed up with ATL Elite Football. She claims he left the house at two in the morning on Saturday with several buddies. She last saw him alive at that point.
The cause of the death is still under investigation, according to the investigators.
