Florida Teen Found Dead in Apparent Homicide Hours After He Was Reported Missing

Only hours subsequent to being accounted for missing, a Florida high schooler has been found dead with a discharge wound.

As indicated by the Sumter Area Sheriff’s Office, the group of 15-year-old Jontae Haywood was found soon after he was accounted for missing around 1:20 a.m. Friday, Dec. 16.

Haywood’s mother told WESH-2 that she developed concerned when her child didn’t get back home on Thursday, inciting her to call specialists. “It is with extraordinary bitterness that the Sumter Region Sheriff’s Office reports missing adolescent, Jontae Haywood (15 years of age), has been seen as expired,” the Sheriff’s Office posted in a proclamation on Facebook.

Subsequent to getting data that Haywood might have been the survivor of a shooting, “A few individuals from the Sheriff’s Office met on the area and started looking through the latest area of Jontae. Presently Jontae’s body was found,” the Sheriff’s Office proclamation proceeded.

Florida Teen Found Dead in Apparent Homicide Hours After He Was Reported Missing

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The high schooler purportedly longed for working in the music business, per WESH-2 and was once an understudy at Sumter Private Foundation.

A GoFundMe to fund-raise for Haywood’s burial service costs says, “Jontae had such a lot of life at this point to live,” portraying him as a “charming and merciful young fellow.”

The Sumter Province Sheriff’s Office is at present examining the kid’s passing as a manslaughter, and is requesting that the public offer any significant clues about what has been going on with Haywood. If it’s not too much trouble, contact the Sumter Region Sheriff’s Office at 352-793-2621 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477) with any data.