‘Words can’t explain it’: Missing Berkley teen found fatally shot in Detroit

DETROIT – 15-year-old Janiya Brown had been lacking from Berkley for two-and-a-half weeks.

On Wednesday (Could 11), Native 4 Information talked about how this poor woman’s household should really feel. Now we all know precisely how they really feel after the homicide that has taken place.

“Phrases can’t clarify it,” stated Janiya Brown’s father, Jason Brown. “My child woman was proper right here.”

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The incident was an unthinkable tragedy that was actuality for Jason Brown and different members of the Brown household.

“They took her life proper right here, and he or she was solely 15,” Jason Brown stated.

Family members had lastly discovered the lacking teen, however not how they hoped. Jason Brown is simply attempting to recollect the great occasions.

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“She liked music,” Jason Brown stated. “She simply liked exterior. She couldn’t sit nonetheless.”

On April 24, the Berkley Police Division launched an image of Janiya Brown, indicating that she was a lacking runaway. Just a bit over two weeks later, the 15-year-old’s physique was present in a stolen automobile linked to a carjacking.

Police say Janiya Brown was an individual of curiosity within the case of luring a 20-year-old she simply met on-line to a house on Clarita Avenue, the place he was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint. Relations, nonetheless, are saying that she was pressured to prey on unsuspecting victims.

“I do know she couldn’t get away from them,” Jason Brown stated. “She didn’t do that on her personal. She was pressured to. She’s a child. She’s a baby.”

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Whether or not or not the accusations are true, Detroit police are working extraordinarily onerous to search out the 2 males she was final seen with.

“A really tragic state of affairs,” stated Detroit Police Chief James White. “It’s an open and energetic investigation, and we’re taking a look at loads of angles.”

Jason Brown now has a message for runaways who’re leaving their houses and assembly others on-line.

“You don’t know who you’re assembly on Instagram,” Jason Brown stated. “Simply don’t do it. Simply come dwelling as a result of it ain’t secure out right here.”

To make issues worse, Janiya Brown misplaced her mom a couple of 12 months or two in the past, so that is one other devastating blow for the complete household.