10-14-2011, 09:48 PM
Washington Post
“A real mild-mannered, respectful kid,” one of his coaches, Xavier Twine, said Friday. “He was one the kids who stood there, eyes at attention, looking at the coaches.”
Police were still trying to determine why it took two weeks for anyone to report the boy or his mother missing. The two lived in an apartment on Briarcliff Terrace in Germantown. Police said they first learned of possible trouble Wednesday. They got into the apartment through a window.
Inside, police found the body of Jane McQuain, 51, and no sign of William. On Friday, the Maryland state medical examiner ruled her death a homicide and said she died of stab wounds and blunt force trauma.
Officials have said it appears that McQuain had been dead for at least several days. On Friday, they declined to give a more specific time frame.
Inside the apartment, “we’ve got no indication that there was any struggle involving” William, Montgomery Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said Friday.
At first, he said, police picked up information that William might have left on a planned trip with Lopez. They hoped that when the found Lopez, they would find William, Manger said. But when Lopez was picked up Thursday morning in North Carolina, there was no sign of his stepson.
Detectives have spoken with relatives, friends and neighbors of Jane and William McQuain, Starks said. The detectives picked up signs that they might both have still been alive through the first weekend of October.