Posted on 03/13/2018 2:14:33 PM PDT by BBell
A search for a 14-year-old who authorities said jumped into the Mississippi River was called off over the weekend, leaving his family and others who knew him desperate to recover his body and questioning how a chase of a stolen vehicle ended in a boy's death.
Ja'sean Williams was identified by family members as the teen who they presume has died after he went into the river early Thursday (March 8). The St. Bernard Sheriff's Office said Ja'sean jumped into the river near the Chalmette Ferry Landing, after police chased him and another boy in a stolen car.
"Something went wrong on that bridge and ... we want answers," said his mother, Sonya Williams.
According to a news release, Ja'sean was driving a stolen Infiniti FX35 near the intersection of Paris Road and Casa Calvo Street shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday when Sheriff's Office deputies tried to stop the car for a "suspected moving violation."
Ja'sean refused to stop, the report states, and "fled at a high rate of speed," southbound on Paris Road towards the ferry landing. The car crashed into a guard rail of the ferry landing and, with the car stuck, Ja'sean got out and tried to run away before jumping in the river, according to the report.
The 15-year-old passenger who had been in the car was caught by deputies and booked with resisting arrest, possession of stolen property and obstruction of justice, according to the sheriff's office.
Ja'sean's mother, Sonya Williams said the 15-year-old boy picked up her son in the stolen car late Wednesday and the two went to their friend's house in Little Woods. The boy told her they left around 1 a.m. and he was tired, so he asked Ja'sean to drive. According to Sonya Williams, the boy said Ja'sean missed the exit
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Should be teach a black kid how to swim.
Pittiful. A teen not able to swim?
As bad as a teen not being able to read.
Ah, yes and here we go with the customary pictures of him when he was 10.
Ja’sean
Apostrophes always mean trouble. You cannot be too careful around an apostrophe.
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Some committee should investigate the “apostrophe to prison” pipeline.
It’s 1AM on a weekday morning. Do you know where your little delinquent is?
Nothing good happens at 2:00am on a school night. Momma is responsible for her 14-year neglect of this precious little thug-to-be, and nobody else.
You steal a car, among other fun activities that are frowned upon, and you open your existence to all sorts of bad things that can happen to you, no matter what you wanted to do with your life or what your mama wanted for you.
It's the crux of the biscuit.
He could swim.
Another example of Darwin’s theories...Suicide by cop...
Maybe Bobby Gentry will write an “Ode to Ja’sean”.
Just saying...
I was staying in Spokane one night at a riverside motel. I was awoken by the sounds of helicopters outside my room as they were hovering over the Spokane River with searchlights. The next morning it was reported that some idiot decided to run from the cops and then took his chances by jumping in the river. This was in January and that water was freezing. Found his dead ass about 4 months later...
Did they ever find the rest of him?
Thank you for translating! You’re a much better writer than whoever wrote this illogical article. Now I understand what actually happened thanks to you.
You got me on that one.
If momma is wanting answers....look in the mirror.....
An apostrophe even looks like a trigger. Beware.
Babymama’s story doesn’t even make sense if you look at a map.
They left New Orleans in a stolen Infiniti to Little Woods (Northeast on Lake Pontchartrain) and instead of turning left and going back to New Orleans ‘accidently’ drive miles on Paris Rd until they reach Chalmette (Southeast of New Orleans) and wreck on the ferry landing on the Mississippi.
They were on some sort of a spree.
-PJ
Cold water has no mercy.
Years ago a FReeper described his barely surviving cold water experience in a canoe or some kind of small craft. Someone else was there to rescue him or he would not have told the story.
-PJ
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