The Prince George’s County Police Department has identified human remains that were found in College Park on Nov. 3 in Indian Creek Stream Valley Park near Lake Artemesia.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has determined that the death of the victim, 14-year-old Jefferson Amaya-Ayala of Washington, D.C., was a homicide.
The teenager had been missing since Aug. 2, when he was last seen in the District, according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Law enforcement officials set up operations on Sweetbriar Drive on Nov. 3 and told a resident there was no danger to the neighborhood.
County police, Metropolitan police and the FBI’s Cross-Border Task Force were conducting a joint missing-persons investigation when they discovered the remains, according to a news release issued by county police on Dec. 5.
Amaya-Amala’s phone emitted a signal from a park in College Park within a week of his disappearance over the summer, according to a Facebook report from the Spanish language outlet DMV Noticias.
Police said they have no suspects or motive in the killing.
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