According to WtvgKeimani Latigue’s family denounced its missing on March 18. Toledo police initially suspected that his father, Darnell Jones, 33, abducted.
It start He reported that authorities issued a term for Jones’s arrest on Sunday. He has now been charged with murder after Keimani was found dead.
The body of the young woman was discovered on the second floor of an abandoned house east of Toledo on Monday afternoon.
The Lucas County Coroner’s office confirmed that the body was that of the missing teenager, but he does not yet have to determine the cause or form of Keimani’s death, according to WTVG. A autopsy has been scheduled for Tuesday.
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Keimani Latigue, 13, of Toledo, Ohio, faded from his North Toledo house on March 18, seen for the last time by his father, Darnell Jones, 33.
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“I just want to know if it is my baby‘
Her mother, Tiara Kasten, was among several people at the scene, demanding responses and confirmation that the remains inside the home were those of her daughter before being identified.
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“I just want to know if it is my baby. I still don’t tell me nothing“, Said Kasten.” It’s nothing to take a picture. It’s nothing to do -know when the coroner door to see if I can see if this is my baby. You say nothing. “
Kasten said his daughter would never have been near the abandoned house in the neighborhood. Keimani had only a few places where he would go home, such as school or play basketball.
He recalled the last time he saw his daughter, on March 15, three days before his disappearance. Jones had brought Keimani to his house and the couple spent a while together.
“It was loving my son,” he said.
Jones was the last person who saw his daughter
Police discovered new findings a few hours after Keimani’s body was found. According to an affidavit, Jones was the last person to see his daughter before disappearing, WTVG reported.
He had also given incoherent statements to police on his whereabouts during this time.
Jones said he last saw Keimani on March 16 after saying he did not want to be alone at home.
“I came here because he said that it seemed that someone was trying to enter the house. I and my cousin sat here for an hour and left at 12:30,” Jones said.
Police arrested Keimani’s grandmother on the same day his body was found
Keimani’s grandmother, Dorothy Latigue, spoke of her granddaughter after being denounced. He said that Keimani had been living with her, and when he returned home on March 17, everything was out of place. Keimani’s keys and glasses were there, and the stove was underway.
“Apart from her and me, there are only two dogs in the house, so who cut it out?
On Monday, WTOL He reported that Latigue was arrested on the same day that the young woman was found dead. Kasten said at his mother, Latigue, he was captured, but he had no information on her charges. Wtl requested details from the authorities, who did not respond to why Latigue was taken in remand.
