A Brandon, Miss., family that vanished without a trace after a car wreck has been found dead, a relative said.Atira Hill, 30, her 7-year-old son, Jaidon, and her husband, Laterry Smith, 34, were last seen driving in their car on Friday, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said in a statement.
The family’s abandoned, smoldering, tan Dodge SUV was found upside down in a ditch in Hermanville, Miss., Saturday morning, Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones told ABCNews.com Monday, but the family had not been seen since Friday.
Penny King, who is a relative of Atira Hill, said the family was found dead but that she didn’t “know all the particulars yet.”
Officer Colendula Green, a spokeswoman for the Jackson Police Department, told ABCNews.com that three bodies were found early this (Tuesday) morning but declined to comment further.
On Monday afternoon, investigators were seen collecting items from a Dumpster at a Shell gas station in Jackson, Miss., that were linked to the family. Among the items found were bloody clothes and Hill’s ID badge from her job at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, WAPT-TV reported.
A hospital spokesman had confirmed earlier to ABC News that an Atira Hill-Smith worked at the hospital but had not shown up for work on Monday. King said she last spoke with Hill a week ago but knew of a “strange” conversation that Hill had with her mother. “Atira told her mother on Friday that she was going out of town and something had just come up,” King said. “She said that they were going to see some of Laterry’s people about some business.”
King said she did not know what Smith did professionally, adding the couple had only been married a few months and Smith “did not come around much.”
King described Hill as a “very quiet” person whose son, Jaidon, “was her life.” King became tearful when speaking about the 7-year-old, whom she described as an “energetic, all-American boy.
“He’s full of energy and full of life. He worked in the church,” she said as she choked back tears. “He just didn’t deserve this at all.”
Tuesday 5 November 2013
MISSING FAMILY FOUND DEAD
A Brandon, Miss., family that vanished without a trace after a car wreck has been found dead, a relative said.Atira Hill, 30, her 7-year-old son, Jaidon, and her husband, Laterry Smith, 34, were last seen driving in their car on Friday, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said in a statement.
The family’s abandoned, smoldering, tan Dodge SUV was found upside down in a ditch in Hermanville, Miss., Saturday morning, Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones told ABCNews.com Monday, but the family had not been seen since Friday.
Penny King, who is a relative of Atira Hill, said the family was found dead but that she didn’t “know all the particulars yet.”
Officer Colendula Green, a spokeswoman for the Jackson Police Department, told ABCNews.com that three bodies were found early this (Tuesday) morning but declined to comment further.
On Monday afternoon, investigators were seen collecting items from a Dumpster at a Shell gas station in Jackson, Miss., that were linked to the family. Among the items found were bloody clothes and Hill’s ID badge from her job at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, WAPT-TV reported.
A hospital spokesman had confirmed earlier to ABC News that an Atira Hill-Smith worked at the hospital but had not shown up for work on Monday. King said she last spoke with Hill a week ago but knew of a “strange” conversation that Hill had with her mother. “Atira told her mother on Friday that she was going out of town and something had just come up,” King said. “She said that they were going to see some of Laterry’s people about some business.”
King said she did not know what Smith did professionally, adding the couple had only been married a few months and Smith “did not come around much.”
King described Hill as a “very quiet” person whose son, Jaidon, “was her life.” King became tearful when speaking about the 7-year-old, whom she described as an “energetic, all-American boy.
“He’s full of energy and full of life. He worked in the church,” she said as she choked back tears. “He just didn’t deserve this at all.”
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