Remembering Aveion Lewis

The Amber Alert for Aveion Lewis is canceled tonight, and authorities say they are now looking into this case as a death investigation.  Police say they believe Aveion was dead prior to the reported abduction on January 14, 2009. 

According to a police press release, “the department has investigated the reported abduction and received varying degrees of cooperation from key persons in the investigation; which lead police to question the validity of information received from some individuals.  As a result, investigators began to focus on the possibility that Brandon Lockett, Aveion’s step-father was not providing accurate details.”

Conflicting statements from the step-father were given to authorities, and at this time, Brandon Lockett is in custody.  No charges have been filed yet, but he is being questioned. Authorities say they have come to this conclusion because of conflicting statements given, and as time went on investigators were advised an abduction did not occur.  Sadly, at this time, police do not know where Aveion’s body could be, but they have expanded the ground search to find the toddler. 

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