Las Vegas police search for girl, 10, missing since last week
Published December 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
Police in Las Vegas are searching for a 10-year-old girl who has been missing since last week.
Jade Morris was last seen on Friday in Las Vegas near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Alta Drive. She was wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt and a long brown jacket, Officer Laura Meltzer told FoxNews.com.
“They’re interviewing everybody who may have knowledge of her whereabouts and trying to find her and bring her home,” Meltzer said.
Morris — who was described as a black girl about 5 feet tall and weighing 70 pounds — was last seen in the custody of Brenda Stokes, who was driving a red 2007 four-door Saab, Meltzer said.
Stokes, 50, is reportedly a friend of the girl's family and may have some relationship with her father. Stokes was arrested Friday after she allegedly slashed the face of a blackjack dealer in the Bellagio hotel-casino and remains jailed, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
Anyone with information on Morris’ whereabouts is asking to contact Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at (702) 828-2907.
19 comments:
OFF TOPIC:
Nancy Grace is discussing the Ayla Reynolds case now. Her mom is on the phone.
I had to post because my heart is broken and still seeking justice for Carnel:
Jamiee Chamberlain accused of selling drugs:
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/12/jaimee_chamberlain_mother_of_d.html
http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=840778#.UNutgRwU6iw
http://www.sourcenewspapers.com/articles/2012/12/23/news/doc50d7523bf11bc340383706.txt
Jazzie,
I have not read the article yet. It would be partial justice to me if they kept her in prison until she dies. She did nothing to protect sweet little Carnel.
Jazzie, did you see her picture? Was that her mug shot? She looks much better now.
The way I read it, without (at the least) jaimee providing unlimited access to Carnel, bennett would not have been able to slowly torture and murder him.
Jail? Death penalty is what she deserves.
This story does not sound good for this little girl.
"Hell, yeah," Stokes (fathers fiancee, who was last seen with the girl) told investigators, according to a police report obtained by the Las Vegas Review Journal. "I would have whooped that ass. I would have killed her. I should have killed her." (Stokes talking about her friend whom she got stabby with)...
I do not think this is a good scenario. Stokes also had gone to a doctor the week before stating she wanted to "hurt someone".
Searching for pressers, on missing Jade Morris. Most are repetitive.
Vegas press linked, has video of Jade's father and grandfather.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/20429376/missing-girls-father-searches-for-answers
The girlfriend of 4 yrs is who is suspect by Jade's father. She arrested and charged in court, for attacking a co-worker at the Bellagio Hotel. This happening hours after she took Jade from her mother's home. Using a box cutter attacking the co-worker, cutting her face. She sounds wrapped really wrong. Over a personal dispute, that ended their friendship, reason for the attack.
She the last to be with Jade, taking her shopping. The video, I am confused. The Dad lives with his parents? Showing the living area, the couch, Grandfather at one end of the couch, Dad at the opposite end. Distance?
1:07 in the video, is a written (?) statement by Jade, it is written and signed by her, to the right it appears an adult possibly signed it? Hard to read, "Medcal group partners, (sic), is North plan leaving your service area?
Odd, why it is shown by the press not said.
@ 2:41 Reporter to say that Jade's father, told them the girlfriend is the only one with permission to take Jade from her mother's home. He is not allowed to take Jade himself?
One presser, not the full story. The father is not showing himself as protector, but victim. Weeping not angry, soft spoken, non aggressive to the said his gf may have something to do with Jade's missing. Zero pleading. He has not made contact with the girlfriend, Jade missing for 5 days. Something stinks.
I agree, this is not going to end well.
If Jade is related the the other victim then it is likely she is no longer with us.
She gets killed and then her killer goes stabby in a casino.
I wonder why she did it in a casino given all the cameras and security?
Was her rage such that she didn't care if she was caught, all that was on her mind was getting to her victim?
Attack first then worry about the consequences later.
Mental health issues being her defence since no one in their right mind is going to commit such a serious crime in such a public place, a place with so many cameras and guards there was no way she could claim it wasn't her had she gotten away.
LE need to check her house and car for blood since a box cutter was her weapon of choice and check her cell phone pings ( and GPS if applicable) to see where she went between picking up Jade and going to the casino.
Jazzie, thank you for posting the pressers on Jaimee Chamberlain.
Makes you wonder, how she was arrested selling to undercover narcs doesn't it. My guess is that LE were aware, as they tore her house to shreds, she was using along with Bennett in the Honeymoon Suite. Someone tracking her, and they said let's make a dope deal, she fell for it.
Misty Croslin comes to mind. Jaimee and Misty cut from the same cloth. Let's see how much wiggle room Jaimee receives on these charges from her " people". She thinks she has an out? her smiling face shows no fear in her booking photo.
Carnel is where? he was given back to his monster? he had a funeral? or ? his autopsy reports never to surface in the press, stating his causes of torture leading to his, murder, death. Not one word said by the tribal of him since too long. Never Jaimee to mention him, to fight for his justice, to make statements of Bennett's arrest court hearings.
People care Jazzie, like you, Nanna, myself, many many care and this waiting is tiring, not to know where he is, the very least never said. Carnel is not forgotten.
V
Body of small black female found../sad
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec/27/police-discovery-body-northern-valley/
They have not confirmed if it is Jade or not.
Hob's, this is a story in my backyard. I think the reason it occurred in the casino is because that is where they both worked and she knew she could find her there (though it's never been made clear if the attack happened in the back areas where only employees have access or if it was on the public floors of the casino). I could be wrong, but with all the news stories here in town, that's what appears to have been the reasoning. Also, for as much security and cameras and surveillance as casinos have on the floor, the back of house, has far less that those public areas - though there are still surveillance cameras back there. I just read the link provided by SELLA35 about the discovery of a body. They aren't sure yet if it is the missing child. So sad!
~Faith
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/jade-morris-found-dead_n_2372706.html
VITA:
Carnel
black & blue
burned & buried
underneath a porch
like a dead possum.
The one who's name means I love
deals poison while
Feather on his face is pacing.
The eternal whispers
through the winter pines
revealing the shimmering truth.
At least Jade has been found and can be given a dignified burial.
Her family at least now know what happened to her and have some small form of closure.
There is no wondering if she is in pain, lost, being abused, scared etc.
It is not the ending they or we wanted, it is though an ending of the worry, uncertainty and fear for her well being.
Unlike so many family members of a missing child, they got their loved one back and can now begin the process of healing.
I hope her murderer gets the death penalty.
Anyone who murders a child or leavs them so disabled they require 24 hr care for the rest of their lives, unable to see, hear, breathe unaided.
If they are lucky they are not aware of their situation, if they are unlucky they will have just enough awareness to realise they are trapped in a shell and existing not living.
Any child abuser be it physical or sexual should face a mandatory 50 years per offence all to be served consecutively.
My condolences to the family of Jade, I am sorry it happened at what should be the season of goodwill to all, a season of joy and wonderment for children.
Losing a loved one at this time of year is always so hard, seeing the world around you full of laughter and promises of good things to come, a season of celebration and there you are, griefstricken at the loss of your child, made worse because it was a murder.
Authorities couldn’t immediately confirm the body was Jade Morris pending positive identification and notification of family members by the Clark County coroner, Las Vegas policeCapt. Chris Jones said.
But, “I can tell you that the likelihood is that this is our victim,” Capt. Jones said, though positive identification was not expected until Friday.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/27/american-scene-police-find-body-think-missing-girl/#ixzz2GJvBCIxj
the Likelihood ..
it's not a likelihood, it is her
The truth to be said yet, when ? how long? or her murder too will be swept under the rug, it personal, her closest to her, to do the deed?
Children who get in the way of one's unknown, cowards take them out. Why ? because they lack control of their present. Children are not the nemesis. The cowards are, they who take the innocent out of our world are just that, cowards.
Jade snuffed out, because she was better, not because of anything less. She another, bigger brighter than the world she was placed in. RIP Baby girl - she is free of those who treated her less than. More free than they will ever be.
I was incorrect before, it appears, that while both women worked at the casino, the attack occurred on the floor and security stopped it. The assailant was quoted as having said she would have killed the other woman if security hadn't intervened. Authorities are almost positive the body found was Jade, but they are leaving it up to the Clark County Coroner for a positive ID. http://www.lvrj.com/news/police-find-body-believed-to-be-missing-10-year-old-girl-in-desert-184980791.html
~Fatih
The weeklong search for a Las Vegas girl ended Friday afternoon when officials confirmed that a small body found in an undeveloped housing tract belonged to the missing child.
The Clark County coroner's office said a body discovered Thursday belongs to 10-year-old Jade Morris, who police had been searching for since Christmas Day. She died of multiple stab wounds, the coroner's office said.
Jade was last seen Dec. 21 with family friend Brenda Stokes Wilson, who picked her up to go Christmas shopping.
Wilson, 50, returned the car she had borrowed for the outing to a friend two hours later. Jade never came back.
Investigators later found blood on the driver's door and steering wheel of the 2007 Saab sedan.
Later that night, Wilson was wrestled to the ground with razors in each hand after allegedly slashing the face of a female co-worker at the Bellagio casino.
A judge raised her bail to from $60,000 to $600,000 on Friday morning after she was identified as the prime suspect in the child's killing.
"As soon as we get all the evidence in that we need, we'll book her on the murder charges," Las Vegas police homicide Capt. Chris Jones said.
Wilson has been jailed since the 21st on felony battery with a weapon, burglary and mayhem charges that could get her decades in prison.
Police said she offered no help in the search for the missing girl. Murder and kidnapping charges could get her life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
On Thursday, Las Vegas police responding to a 911 call found a girl's body in unkempt brush near palm trees in a small traffic circle about 10 miles from the downtown Las Vegas outlet mall where Stokes was to have taken the girl shopping.
On Friday evening, Jones called the slaying "unfathomable."
"Even having our jobs, we still can't wrap our heads around this," he said. "A lot of people think that just because of our positions we can understand it, but we can't."
In court Friday morning, Wilson stood flanked by eight police officers as her lawyer, Tony Liker, clutching a Bible and a copy of the charging documents, asked the judge to postpone arraignment until Wednesday to give him time to meet with Wilson.
Wilson, who had been identified by police and prosecutors as Brenda Stokes, told the judge Friday that her full name was Brenda Stokes Wilson.
Jade's father, Philip Morris, was removed from court Wednesday by armed court officers after shouting questions about his daughter's whereabouts to Wilson. He did not attend Friday's hearing.
The two dated for several years, and Jade had a long and trusting relationship with Wilson, according to the girl's grandfather, Philip Tucker.
Tucker said Philip Morris lived in Billings, Mont., and worked at a Flying J truck stop for more than a year. He would stay with Wilson when he visited Las Vegas, Tucker said.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the slaying. But Tucker said Wilson appeared to believe that the face-slashing victim had become romantically involved with Philip Morris.
Wilson picked up Jade up for their shopping expedition around 5 p.m. Later, she got a ride with a friend to the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip. She allegedly attacked her co-worker, Joyce Rhone, around 9:30 p.m.
Rhone, 44, was hospitalized with deep cuts on her face, including one from her ear to the edge of her mouth.
Wilson told investigators that she visited her doctor last week, seeking to be admitted to a hospital "due to feeling like she wanted to hurt someone."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/28/las-vegas-police-find-body-believed-to-be-missing-10-year-old-girl/#ixzz2GPc44Ge7
Why wasn't this woman committed under the Baker Act? I haven't read an explanation but everyone was up in arms over a similar case in which the French (details escape me) put a psychiatrist in prison for murder. If the doctor failed to follow through here, I hope they throw the book at him or her.
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