Surveillance footage released this week shows a 13-year-old boy’s final moments as he walks through a DeKalb County subdivision with an unidentified person.
Nearly two months after Jamiren Cordell Crosby’s body was found by a passerby lying in thick brush behind a row of townhomes in the 1600 block of Parkview Trail, police said they believe the male spotted with him is responsible for his death. Authorities are now working to identify the suspect and take him into custody.
Crosby’s body was found Sept. 19, about 10 minutes from his home, and the DeKalb Medical Examiner’s Office said they determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound. Virginia Montgomery told Channel 2 Action News that Crosby was partially covered by a blue tarp and was clutching a branch at the time she found him.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 18, Crosby’s mother called police and reported her son as a runaway, according to a missing person report. She told officers he left home around 2 a.m. and believed he’d taken her handgun with him. Crosby’s mother thought he could have gone with a friend to the Arbor Crossing apartment complex, about a half-mile from their home.
Footage released by the police department shows Crosby leaving a neighborhood Sept. 18 at 3:11 a.m. near where he was found dead. The teen was wearing black jeans, a black and white hoodie and white shoes. The person to the left of him, who police identified as the suspect, was wearing all black.
Crosby was a student at DeKalb Alternative School, according to the DeKalb County School District. His family said they sent out search parties through the weekend to look for him at local schools and parks. A mysterious phone call to the family suggested Jamiren was killed and left somewhere in Lithonia Park, Channel 2 reported.
Anyone who recognizes the suspect is asked to contact the DeKalb police Homicide Assault Unit at 770-724-7850.
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