For nearly two weeks, Nevaeh Buchanan's family held out
hopes of finding her alive.
Ever since the 5-year-old girl vanished May
24 from the parking lot of her apartment complex, relatives joined throngs of
police, volunteers and investigators to scour fields, quarries and other sites
to safely bring her home.
But about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the news was the
worst imaginable: Sheriff's deputies arrived with word that a body authorities
found miles away, near the River Raisin, matched her description and likely was
Nevaeh, relatives said.
"I'm very, very sad," Shaun Lawson, Nevaeh's
uncle, told a crowd of about 200 people gathered outside of the Charlotte Arms
Apartments, where the girl went missing. "It took Nevaeh's life to bring
everyone together. ... (Authorities) are waiting for actual confirmation, but
(the body) does match Nevaeh's description."
Monroe County Sheriff's
Department and FBI officials would not confirm they had found the child's body,
but a news conference was planned for this morning. Relatives said Thursday they
believed it was Nevaeh's body based on the clothing authorities described, which
matched what she wore when she disappeared.
Earlier, police cordoned off
an area near the River Raisin around Dixon Road in the area of Ida-Maybee and
Neiman roads. By 7 p.m., at least four people in white Hazmat suits were walking
along the south bank of the River Raisin in an area just east of railroad tracks
near Yensch Road.
Guy Bickley, 52, of Newport said he and his father
starting fishing near Dixon Road about 9 a.m. Thursday from a concrete platform
by the river.
Around noon, the pair detected an overwhelming smell,
which they thought was from dead fish, and noticed a block of concrete that they
believed had come from the structure they were standing on. Bickley said he
started scraping away at the surface of the concrete block and saw maggots and
what appeared to be human skin.
He immediately left and called police,
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"I hoped to God
it wasn't that 5-year-old girl," Bickley said.
As the sun set and news
of the developments unfolded, about a dozen relatives huddled around a teddy
bear-adorned memorial, which has been growing steadily since she disappeared. "I
was eating dinner when I got the news they found something," Diana Lawson,
Nevaeh's great-aunt, said. "I just about choked."
During an impromptu
gathering at Charlotte Arms, some supporters cried, clutching their children in
flickering candlelight as they struggled to grasp the apparent loss.
"I
had high hopes she's alive," said the Rev.Juicy
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had organized volunteers to search for Nevaeh. "Wherever she's gone now, she's
free now. There is no suffering for her right now. ... Most likely, 99.99
percent, this is her because of the clothing, because of the description."
Family friend Mary Millsaps was at the apartment of Jennifer Buchanan,
the girl's mother, when county sheriff's deputies arrived with the grim update.
"There is unbelievable pain going on in the apartment," Millsaps said,
declining to comment on what was said. "That officer got a few words out of his
mouth and ... screams,juicy
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Nevaeh's grandmother,
Sherry Buchanan, and Diana Lawson were later seen leaving in a car, followed by
a sheriff's deputy.
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