A short time later, Mitchell was grabbed by a man, later identified as 45-year-old Gregory Walker, in a 2002 Chevy Impala.
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No charges have been filed against the 51-year-old man or three other people who have been arrested.
Police have not said whether the man in the video is the same man Deontae’s cousin said dropped some money, but Police Chief James Craig said during a news conference Friday that investigators know the abduction was committed “over a certain amount of money”.
(City of Detroit Police Department via AP).
Craig also said that police are awaiting the results of an autopsy on the body of Deontae Mitchell, which was found Thursday in a vacant lot.
Surveillance footage from the liquor store cameras showed an armed man forcing Deontae into a black auto.
Police said at least half a dozen people contacted police with valuable information after images of the suspects were released.
Earnest Coleman, 26, was charged with kidnapping and will be arraigned Sunday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy said in a statement.
He was found dead in a field on Thursday.
The man walked into the market, but returned outside with a gun drawn after realizing his money was missing, Crystal Mitchell told the newspaper Friday. Detroit Police Chief James Cra.
Crystal Mitchell, center the mother of Deontae Mitchell, is surrounded by comforting family and friends pray, Thursday, June 2, at the scene where a body was found in Detroit.
Duggan said there is far too much violence in the city.
Walker was found Thursday morning in a motel room in Toledo, Ohio, and was taken into custody. Police say surveillance video from a neighborhood market shows a man abducting the 13-year-old Detroit boy.
A vigils were held Thursday evening at the scene where Mitchell’s body was found and later at Nino’s Market where Mitchell was last seen. Police say surveillance video from a neighborhood market shows a man abducting the 13-year-old Detroit boy.
It is alleged that Coleman kidnapped Mitchell with others at Nino’s Market on East Warren Avenue on May 31 at about 11:15 p.m.
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Surveillance video shows Deontae being pursued by a man police believe to be Walker, grabbed by his arm and forced into a auto. But Walker is sitting in a hospital bed because, sources say, when Detroit Police, Toledo SWAT, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took him into custody Thursday morning, he began complaining of chest pains.
