A woman found dead earlier this month on federal land near the Chattahoochee River died of an accidental drug overdose.
Markeesha Taylor, 20, was found May 11 near Roswell Road and Riverside Drive, according to Roswell police. There was no indication that she was killed there, and authorities believe she was dropped off at that location.
There were no immediate signs of how she died, and her body was transported to the Futon County Medical Examiner’s office. The death certificate, signed today, indicates Taylor died of an accidental methamphetamine overdose, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Roswell police are interested in speaking with Taylor’s boyfriend, but have not been able to reach him, said department spokesman Zachary Frommer
“The Roswell Police Department has been attempting to contact the boyfriend for information, but he is not returning our phone calls so we are looking for him,” Frommer said in an email.
Frommer said the boyfriend’s name is Mustafa Tariq Reddick, but most people know him as Tariq Smith.
Reddick posted on social media that he contacted authorities to report his girlfriend missing, but there is no evidence of such a report, Frommer said.
Taylor was buried Saturday near Hulbert, Okla., about20 mile northeast of Muskogee, Okla., where she spent several adolescent years, according to an obituary posted on the website of the Keith D. Biglow funeral home in Tulsa, Okla.
Born Markeesha Latreece Taylor, the young woman spent some time in Florida as a child, before moving to Muskogee, where she attended middle and high school. The obituary says Taylor “loved modeling, children, fashion … and car shows with her father.”
According to Taylor’s social media accounts, she was a model and moved to Atlanta in 2013. She celebrated her 20th birthday April 28, days before she was found dead.
Efforts to reach Taylor’s parents and other relatives have been unsuccessful.
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