DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA: The father of a two-year-old boy, who went missing on August 16, is facing murder charges after the child’s remains were identified at a Georgia garbage facility.
Artavious North, 23, had reported that his son J’Asiah Deon Mitchell has been kidnapped by armed men on August 16, but police soon suspected that he fabricated the story.
How did J’Asiah’s mother react after her son's remains were found?
J’Asiah’s mother, Asia Mitchell, who was not in a relationship with North at the time of the alleged killing, expressed her grief and anger on Facebook.
“You took my world from me. Now God will make yours upside down,” she wrote in one post.
“Evil,” she wrote in another, sharing a news update about North’s charges.
The Fulton County medical examiner confirmed J’Asiah’s identity on Thursday, one week after his remains were found at the East Point Transfer Station near North’s home on August 23.
How was J’Asiah Deon Mitchell killed?
The cause of the toddler's death has not yet been revealed. North, however, faces charges of murder, felony murder, first-degree cruelty to children, and concealing the death, according to the East Point Police Department, as per the New York Post.
He has not been formally charged or appeared in court as of Friday afternoon.
As MEAWW reported earlier, J’Asiah Deon Mitchell, a two-year-old boy, disappeared from his home more than two weeks ago on August 16.
His father, Artavious North, 23, lied to the police that his son was taken by armed robbers at a red light.
J’Asiah’s mother Asia Mitchell, told WSBTV that she had left her son with his father at the time of the incident. North later told her that "armed thieves kidnapped the boy at gunpoint "
How were J’Asiah's remains found?
After his disappearance, his family looked for him around the apartment complex where he was last seen.
Police also searched a pond at the Elite at Lakeview Apartments in East Point where his father lived and drained it without finding anything.
They also combed through a landfill in Griffin but did not get any positive results. However, on Friday, September 1, police announced that his remains were found and that it was a positive match.
"East Point Detectives were notified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that the child found at the East Point Transfer Station on August 23, has been positively identified as J’Asiah Mitchell," East Point police said in a statement.
