05-03-2011, 05:57 PM
i don't feel this was foul play.
dogs not found.
NOLA
Sheron Mitchell -- the mother of one of two 13-year-old brothers reported missing from eastern New Orleans for days -- delivered her son's dental records to the Orleans Parish coroner's office on Monday. But she has little doubt the second body recently found floating in Lake Pontchartrain is Aaronne Mitchell.
A conversation Sunday with a representative of the coroner's office revealed the bloated body had a rubber bracelet on one of his wrists.
"I just couldn't breathe," said Mitchell, recalling the moment when the worker began to describe the bracelet.
Before moving back to eastern New Orleans -- after a 2 1/2-year stint in Lafayette -- Mitchell and her son attended a nondenominational church where visitors were given a black rubber church bracelet as a memento.
"He was still wearing it," she said.
The body she believes is her son's was found Friday afternoon in Lake Pontchartrain about a mile from where Bayou Liberty empties into the lake in St. Tammany Parish. The previous day, searchers found the body of his brother, Aaronne Russell, in Lake Pontchartrain, west of Rigolets Pass.
According to autopsies, both died from drowning, said John Gagliano, the chief investigator for the coroner's office, which identified the body of Aaronne Russell from dental records and is expected to do the same Tuesday for the body found Friday.
The body of Aaronne Russell was found about 20 miles from an area in eastern New Orleans where the two boys were last seen walking dogs, said Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department Deputy Chief. And the spot near Bayou Liberty where the second body was found is about 20 miles from where the first body was found, Defillo said.
Karalynn Russell -- mother of Aaronne Russell -- said her theory is that the boys somehow got into a boat and "something happened that caused them to have to get out of the boat."
She said it is unlikely that her son drowned near the shore of Lincoln Beach because he can swim. And Sheron Mitchell insisted her son too was a "good swimmer."
Mitchell said her brother taught his nephew how to swim.
Aaronne "DJ7" Simmons is the father of the boys.
The boys were last seen by Angela Kinler, a former St. Bernard Parish resident who now lives in eastern New Orleans, She said the boys told her they were going for a swim at Lincoln Beach, one of the historic swimming areas along Lake Pontchartrain. And they wanted to know if she would allow them to take Buddy, her dog, and a puppy, which once belonged to a relative of the boys' father. She said she allowed the boys to take the dogs in the spirit of trying to be neighborly.
She became worried when the boys and the dogs did not return. Soon the police were asked for help.
A search conducted by a long list of government agencies and many volunteers followed.
The two dogs have not been found. A report about the dogs being lost was filed April 26 with the Louisiana SPCA.
dogs not found.
NOLA
Sheron Mitchell -- the mother of one of two 13-year-old brothers reported missing from eastern New Orleans for days -- delivered her son's dental records to the Orleans Parish coroner's office on Monday. But she has little doubt the second body recently found floating in Lake Pontchartrain is Aaronne Mitchell.
A conversation Sunday with a representative of the coroner's office revealed the bloated body had a rubber bracelet on one of his wrists.
"I just couldn't breathe," said Mitchell, recalling the moment when the worker began to describe the bracelet.
Before moving back to eastern New Orleans -- after a 2 1/2-year stint in Lafayette -- Mitchell and her son attended a nondenominational church where visitors were given a black rubber church bracelet as a memento.
"He was still wearing it," she said.
The body she believes is her son's was found Friday afternoon in Lake Pontchartrain about a mile from where Bayou Liberty empties into the lake in St. Tammany Parish. The previous day, searchers found the body of his brother, Aaronne Russell, in Lake Pontchartrain, west of Rigolets Pass.
According to autopsies, both died from drowning, said John Gagliano, the chief investigator for the coroner's office, which identified the body of Aaronne Russell from dental records and is expected to do the same Tuesday for the body found Friday.
The body of Aaronne Russell was found about 20 miles from an area in eastern New Orleans where the two boys were last seen walking dogs, said Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department Deputy Chief. And the spot near Bayou Liberty where the second body was found is about 20 miles from where the first body was found, Defillo said.
Karalynn Russell -- mother of Aaronne Russell -- said her theory is that the boys somehow got into a boat and "something happened that caused them to have to get out of the boat."
She said it is unlikely that her son drowned near the shore of Lincoln Beach because he can swim. And Sheron Mitchell insisted her son too was a "good swimmer."
Mitchell said her brother taught his nephew how to swim.
Aaronne "DJ7" Simmons is the father of the boys.
The boys were last seen by Angela Kinler, a former St. Bernard Parish resident who now lives in eastern New Orleans, She said the boys told her they were going for a swim at Lincoln Beach, one of the historic swimming areas along Lake Pontchartrain. And they wanted to know if she would allow them to take Buddy, her dog, and a puppy, which once belonged to a relative of the boys' father. She said she allowed the boys to take the dogs in the spirit of trying to be neighborly.
She became worried when the boys and the dogs did not return. Soon the police were asked for help.
A search conducted by a long list of government agencies and many volunteers followed.
The two dogs have not been found. A report about the dogs being lost was filed April 26 with the Louisiana SPCA.