Parents of Kenyan teenager found dead in the USA speak out
Police in the United States of America is investigating the death of a Kenyan teenager whose body was found near Douglasville’s Arbour Place Mall.
According to the police report, “On the morning of 10/22/22 human remains were located in an area between Arbor Station and Douglas Boulevard.
This area is one of the last known locations of Yaron Kathuri, a 17-year-old missing since 9/28/22.”
Detectives are working to confirm the cause of death.
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In an interview with a USA-based media house, the parents of the teenager known as Mr. Yaron Kathuri said that their son showed signs of depression.
He went missing on September 27, 2022.
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However, a week later after he was reported missing, his body was found inside a reservoir in Georgia on Saturday, October 22.
“We assured him that all was well and we loved him a lot but he still went ahead and disappeared leaving us with the work of searching for him,” said Ms. Vera Kathuri, the mother of the deceased.
On the day he went missing, the teenager had left the house and headed to school but according to detectives in the USA, he never arrived at school.
Police say that he went to the parking lot of the mall and kept on reaching out to his parents who asked him to go back home.
He never honored the orders and could later go silent on everyone and a search for him was launched.
“I had on that day woke him up at 7am and we prayed together as I told him that God loved him. He then left for school,” she said.
The deceased was fond of complaining that he was a burden to his family but the mother kept on telling him to always pray when he felt low.
“When he left for school he called while crying. So we kept trying to get him to just come home, telling him it was okay. And the phone went silent after that. And that was the last conversation,” she said.
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