DA identifies dead 16-year-old found in Milton

DA identifies dead 16-year-old found in Milton
By Joe Dwinell  |   Sunday, November 21, 2010  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage

A Milton Police cruiser sits at the scene where a mutilated body was found Monday night in the middle of the street in front of 57 Brierbrook Street.
Photo by Matt Stone

The identity of the young man found horribly mutilated on a Milton street almost a week ago has been confirmed by a fingerprint as 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale of Charlotte, N.C., the Norfolk DA announced tonight.

The teen’s body was found with severe head trauma and his legs and arms were broken, police told the Herald last week. His remains were found on Brierbrook Street near the Blue Hills reservation.

Here’s the release just into the City Desk:

"Using a fingerprint analysis by State Police Crime Scene Services Section, authorities have been able to identify the young man found dead on Monday night in Milton as Delvonte Tisdale, born November 8, 1994, of Charlotte, North Carolina, Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating announced tonight.

Massachusetts State Police detectives attached to Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating’s Office and Milton Police traveled to North Carolina this week to continue the investigation into the identity of the man and the circumstances of his death.

Massachusetts detectives and detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Police Department collected a finger print from a known personal item of Delvonte Tisdale while in North Carolina. That finger print is a match to the finger print taken from the remains of the man in Massachusetts.

The investigation into this death remains active and ongoing."

The Charlotte Observer reports that Tisdale may have been traveling to Baltimore with friends who were headed to Boston. A white Audi A4, called "a car of interest," was spotted in Dorchester and the owners have been interviewed by cops. One is believed to be a Curry College student, police have said.

WBTV in Charlotte reports Tisdale was an ROTC student at North Mecklenburg High School and was last seen on Nov. 14.

Neighbor Carol Brinson told the TV station Delvonte would volunteer to help her take her garbage out.

"He would always stop by and talk, he wouldn’t just wave," Brinson told WBTV. "But he was soft-spoken and sweet and well-mannered; always out in the yard, helping his dad."

"What kind of person would do this to such a wonderful kid?" she told the station.

A hall pass was found on Tisdale’s body that included a name beginning with the letter “D,” followed by “Tisdale,” a signature beginning with the letter “K” and a date: “10/19/2010.”

It proved to be the key break in this grisly missing person mystery.

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