Police in Georgia may have found body in the search for 2-year-old J’Asiah Mitchell.
Police said they found a body “the size of a 2-year-old” at a solid waste facility in East Point, the boy's home city, according to WSB-TV, Fox5Atlanta and Atlanta News First.
“We’re very interested to make sure or find out if this is the child. I don’t think this is a coincidence since that 2-year-old child is missing, the body is the size of a 2-year-old, so it’s a possibility that’s the case,” East Point Police Chief Shawn Buchanan told WSB-TV.
J’Asiah was reported missing on August 16, after his father, 23-year-old Artavious North, told police the boy had been kidnapped during an armed robbery, police said, per multiple reports.
However, North was charged with making false statements and falsely reporting a crime after investigators were unable to find evidence related to his claims, the outlets reported. It's not immediately clear if he has entered a plea or retained an attorney.
Police have said North is a person of interest in J’Asiah's disappearance.
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A spokesperson for the East Point police also told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday that while police have not yet confirmed the identity of the body found, “there is a high probability” that the body is J’Asiah's “based on the circumstances surrounding this case.”
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