1 00:00:01,556 --> 00:00:02,867 [narrator] Davohnte Morgan disappeared 2 00:00:02,970 --> 00:00:06,246 on May 5th, 2020. 3 00:00:06,349 --> 00:00:10,246 I'm thinking every minute, every second of the day. 4 00:00:10,349 --> 00:00:11,901 Where is my baby? 5 00:00:12,005 --> 00:00:14,556 [man] His family is... [reading] 6 00:00:14,660 --> 00:00:18,625 [woman] I believe that this area, in particular, is known for 7 00:00:18,729 --> 00:00:22,005 KKK, cults, underworld fighting. 8 00:00:23,763 --> 00:00:25,211 [man 2] By the time we got up there, 9 00:00:25,315 --> 00:00:28,280 his girlfriend wasn't really helping. 10 00:00:28,384 --> 00:00:30,729 She was, like, speaking in riddles and stuff. 11 00:00:31,384 --> 00:00:33,418 Like, it was weird. 12 00:00:33,522 --> 00:00:36,625 In my experience, she was acting way out of line. 13 00:00:36,729 --> 00:00:38,936 [narrator reading] 14 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,246 ...retraces... [reading] 15 00:00:42,349 --> 00:00:45,798 This case does haunt me because this is not a normal case. 16 00:00:45,901 --> 00:00:47,384 [man 2] I'm like, "Something happened to my brother." 17 00:00:47,487 --> 00:00:49,384 Like, "Did something happen to my brother? 18 00:00:49,487 --> 00:00:51,832 Right away, I'm like, "We need to get up there." 19 00:00:51,936 --> 00:00:54,384 Because this is just not like Davohnte. 20 00:00:56,418 --> 00:00:58,901 [narrator] The more people who know Davohnte's story, 21 00:00:59,005 --> 00:01:01,763 the greater the chance of bringing him home. 22 00:01:01,867 --> 00:01:03,522 [reading] 23 00:01:06,039 --> 00:01:07,522 Help find him. 24 00:01:07,625 --> 00:01:09,936 [reading] 25 00:01:26,901 --> 00:01:28,349 My name is Terri. 26 00:01:29,142 --> 00:01:31,522 And I am Davohnte's mother. 27 00:01:32,383 --> 00:01:34,315 He was born special. 28 00:01:34,418 --> 00:01:37,832 From day one, you know, everyone took to him. 29 00:01:37,936 --> 00:01:39,349 Starting with the nurses. 30 00:01:40,867 --> 00:01:42,694 It's his aura, you know. 31 00:01:43,453 --> 00:01:45,798 It was before he even laughed. 32 00:01:45,901 --> 00:01:47,556 It was just him. 33 00:01:48,453 --> 00:01:51,832 I guess, those amazing eyes. 34 00:01:51,936 --> 00:01:54,625 He's always had amazing soul. 35 00:01:55,211 --> 00:01:57,867 I have never met a person 36 00:01:57,970 --> 00:02:01,142 that didn't, like, you know, take to him. 37 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,418 [Anthony Patchell] Davohnte is my big brother. 38 00:02:04,522 --> 00:02:08,005 I know growing up around Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 39 00:02:08,108 --> 00:02:10,936 like, I wanted to be just like him. 40 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,453 And if I probably could have gotten, like, a wish 41 00:02:14,556 --> 00:02:18,246 or there was, like, "You can turn into your big brother, if you wanted to." 42 00:02:18,349 --> 00:02:19,763 I probably would have did it. 43 00:02:20,660 --> 00:02:22,832 He was always, like, popular. 44 00:02:22,936 --> 00:02:24,418 All the girls loved him. 45 00:02:25,211 --> 00:02:27,246 My brother is very musically inclined. 46 00:02:27,349 --> 00:02:31,867 He loved to freestyle, make music, he likes to sing, 47 00:02:31,970 --> 00:02:34,487 play the drums and play the piano. 48 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:38,935 My name's Ruthie. I'm Davohnte's auntie. 49 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:41,108 Davohnte had a stuttering problem. 50 00:02:41,211 --> 00:02:42,798 for about, hmm... 51 00:02:42,901 --> 00:02:45,694 I wanna say, about 11-12 years of his life. 52 00:02:45,798 --> 00:02:48,246 And it probably would take him about five minutes 53 00:02:48,349 --> 00:02:50,970 to get a whole, full sentence out. 54 00:02:51,072 --> 00:02:53,211 And the only time he didn't have a stuttering issue 55 00:02:53,315 --> 00:02:55,901 was when he was singing or rapping. 56 00:02:56,005 --> 00:02:57,246 Which is crazy. 57 00:02:57,349 --> 00:02:59,453 ♪ Jingle Bell Jingle Bell ♪ 58 00:02:59,556 --> 00:03:02,280 ♪ Jingle all the way 59 00:03:02,384 --> 00:03:04,039 You can get him to... 60 00:03:04,142 --> 00:03:06,591 entertain or perform anywhere, at the drop of an eye. 61 00:03:06,694 --> 00:03:09,005 [choir singing] 62 00:03:09,108 --> 00:03:10,280 [Terri] He sang in a choir. 63 00:03:10,384 --> 00:03:13,660 And he helped with the kids in the church. 64 00:03:13,763 --> 00:03:15,073 He's a leader. 65 00:03:16,936 --> 00:03:19,108 [Ruthie] So, family meant everything to Davohnte. 66 00:03:19,211 --> 00:03:21,487 [singing] 67 00:03:22,246 --> 00:03:24,625 He never missed a baby shower, 68 00:03:24,729 --> 00:03:26,625 a birthday party, kids' birthday parties, 69 00:03:26,729 --> 00:03:28,315 kids' births, christening. 70 00:03:28,418 --> 00:03:29,453 He was there. 71 00:03:29,556 --> 00:03:31,522 His comfort zone was home, church, 72 00:03:31,625 --> 00:03:33,867 our neighborhood is San Francisco, 73 00:03:33,970 --> 00:03:36,177 and he really didn't go too much past that. 74 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,453 [Anthony] He didn't like to be away from home much. 75 00:03:39,556 --> 00:03:42,487 He was big on, like, staying close to the ones that he loved. 76 00:03:47,556 --> 00:03:50,384 Inn 2019, my brother met a new girl and they started dating. 77 00:03:51,867 --> 00:03:54,142 [Ruthie] Davohnte met his girlfriend 78 00:03:54,246 --> 00:03:56,246 at the Stern Grove Concert, 79 00:03:56,349 --> 00:03:58,315 in the avenues of San Francisco. 80 00:03:58,418 --> 00:04:00,349 It was pretty spontaneous, a fluke. 81 00:04:00,453 --> 00:04:04,039 They met eyes and she just never left his side. 82 00:04:04,142 --> 00:04:07,315 [Anthony] My brother was doing different things and he was being happy. 83 00:04:08,522 --> 00:04:09,798 She brought him to Vegas. 84 00:04:09,901 --> 00:04:11,005 She, like... 85 00:04:11,108 --> 00:04:13,039 was bringing him to beaches and stuff. 86 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,970 I've never seen, like, kinda, like-- 87 00:04:16,072 --> 00:04:17,384 my brother do these kinda things. 88 00:04:17,486 --> 00:04:19,315 And these are always things I've always, like, 89 00:04:19,418 --> 00:04:21,005 wanted my brother to do. 90 00:04:22,625 --> 00:04:26,246 She was about, what, 20 years older than him, give or take. 91 00:04:26,349 --> 00:04:28,970 But the girl was smart. 92 00:04:29,073 --> 00:04:31,660 She was a life-coach, at one point. 93 00:04:31,763 --> 00:04:35,211 And she was able to, like, pull Davohnte 94 00:04:35,315 --> 00:04:37,005 from out of his comfort zone. 95 00:04:38,418 --> 00:04:40,522 [Terri] I'd never wanted to make a issue 96 00:04:40,625 --> 00:04:41,901 about her age. 97 00:04:42,005 --> 00:04:44,832 I just wanted my son to be happy. 98 00:04:44,936 --> 00:04:46,384 And, you know... And live life, you know. 99 00:04:46,487 --> 00:04:50,108 But I did see, you know, a lot of red flags. 100 00:04:54,694 --> 00:04:58,763 [Ruthie] Davohnte and his girlfriend loved to go to lot of places. 101 00:04:58,867 --> 00:05:02,832 And on May 4th, they decided to drive off 102 00:05:02,936 --> 00:05:07,384 to Mount Shasta, which is four hours north of San Francisco. 103 00:05:07,487 --> 00:05:10,591 They were just doing a bed-and-breakfast type of deal. 104 00:05:10,694 --> 00:05:13,280 And this nephew's birthday party was gonna be on May 5th. 105 00:05:13,384 --> 00:05:16,660 So he was planning to return home to San Francisco, 106 00:05:16,763 --> 00:05:18,625 the next day, for the birthday party. 107 00:05:21,556 --> 00:05:23,936 [Anthony] I called his girlfriend's phone 108 00:05:24,039 --> 00:05:26,418 knowing that my brother's phone was broken. 109 00:05:26,522 --> 00:05:29,108 And he seemed pretty, like, at peace and calm 110 00:05:29,211 --> 00:05:31,453 and, like, happy about being somewhere different. 111 00:05:32,729 --> 00:05:34,211 And that was the last time we spoke. 112 00:05:41,039 --> 00:05:42,625 My name is Tessa Clure. 113 00:05:42,729 --> 00:05:44,625 And I was born and raised in Mount Shasta. 114 00:05:44,729 --> 00:05:46,177 And I am currently the mayor. 115 00:05:47,763 --> 00:05:50,901 Mount Shasta is a small, close-knit community 116 00:05:51,005 --> 00:05:52,936 We do have a lot of different visitors 117 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:55,384 because people want to come to a small town 118 00:05:55,487 --> 00:05:57,487 and disconnect for a while. And... 119 00:05:57,591 --> 00:05:59,453 Mount Shasta definitely appeals 120 00:05:59,556 --> 00:06:03,108 to those that wanna come here for spiritual purposes. 121 00:06:03,211 --> 00:06:06,625 Some believe that the mountain itself provides 122 00:06:06,729 --> 00:06:09,384 healing aspects or properties to them. 123 00:06:09,487 --> 00:06:12,487 We also have the head waters of the Sacramento river 124 00:06:12,591 --> 00:06:17,694 that are such a wholesome, cleansing and spiritual aspect, as well. 125 00:06:19,660 --> 00:06:21,556 [Anthony] And I know that his girlfriend is spiritual. 126 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:23,487 She likes to collect crystals, 127 00:06:23,591 --> 00:06:26,142 and, like, sage and all of that. 128 00:06:26,246 --> 00:06:30,384 She's always talking about the stars, and the numbers and alignment. 129 00:06:30,487 --> 00:06:32,453 All this... All this stuff. 130 00:06:33,384 --> 00:06:34,936 [phone ringing] 131 00:06:37,487 --> 00:06:39,349 [Anthony] On May 5th, 2020. 132 00:06:39,453 --> 00:06:42,522 That night, my brother's girlfriend called me 133 00:06:42,625 --> 00:06:45,039 and told me, like, "Man, we got into an argument. 134 00:06:45,142 --> 00:06:47,039 "He left and he hasn't came back. 135 00:06:47,142 --> 00:06:49,315 "You know how Davohnte is." 136 00:06:49,418 --> 00:06:52,970 I don't remember hearing, like, distraught or worry in her voice. 137 00:06:53,073 --> 00:06:54,867 And I think that played a big part in me kinda being, like, 138 00:06:54,970 --> 00:06:56,936 "Okay, well, like, let's-- Let's give it some time. 139 00:06:57,039 --> 00:06:58,315 "'Cause I know if y'all arguing, 140 00:06:58,418 --> 00:07:00,280 "he probably feel like he could just walk off. 141 00:07:00,384 --> 00:07:02,039 "And feel like it's-- Like it's cool." 142 00:07:02,142 --> 00:07:04,522 It didn't really sound like it was a pressed emergency 143 00:07:04,625 --> 00:07:06,211 when she reached out to me. 144 00:07:06,315 --> 00:07:08,453 I just remember, initially, thinking like, 145 00:07:08,556 --> 00:07:10,625 it wasn't real weird. 146 00:07:16,315 --> 00:07:19,453 [Ruthie] Once Thursday, May 7th came, 147 00:07:19,556 --> 00:07:22,625 the girlfriend called Anthony, his brother, and said, 148 00:07:22,729 --> 00:07:25,763 that Davohnte was missing since Tuesday, May 5th. 149 00:07:26,867 --> 00:07:29,211 Right away, I'm like, "We need to get up there." 150 00:07:29,315 --> 00:07:31,729 Because this is just not like Davohnte. 151 00:07:31,832 --> 00:07:33,487 She called me and I said, 152 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,246 "We're on our way. 153 00:07:35,349 --> 00:07:37,039 "But I need you to go and make a police report. 154 00:07:37,142 --> 00:07:38,280 "Not now but right now." 155 00:07:43,936 --> 00:07:44,936 My name is Sergeant Priddy, 156 00:07:45,039 --> 00:07:47,039 with the Mount Shasta Police Department 157 00:07:47,142 --> 00:07:48,694 An official Missing Persons report 158 00:07:48,798 --> 00:07:51,384 was filed on May 7th at 9:16 am 159 00:07:51,487 --> 00:07:52,763 by Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend. 160 00:07:54,315 --> 00:07:55,522 Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend 161 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:57,901 initially told us that they checked into a local motel 162 00:07:58,005 --> 00:07:58,936 and got a rental car 163 00:07:59,039 --> 00:08:00,315 on the 4th of May. 164 00:08:04,901 --> 00:08:08,039 She said, in the early hours of May 5th, 165 00:08:08,142 --> 00:08:11,867 she was awoken by Davohnte to come outside and have a cigarette. 166 00:08:11,970 --> 00:08:14,349 She was mad at Davohnte for waking her 167 00:08:14,453 --> 00:08:15,832 to come outside and have a cigarette. 168 00:08:18,211 --> 00:08:21,211 They realized that they left the hotel key inside the hotel, 169 00:08:21,315 --> 00:08:24,418 and they called the after-hours service to get let back in. 170 00:08:25,246 --> 00:08:27,177 An on-call manager came down 171 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,073 and let them both back in. 172 00:08:30,418 --> 00:08:32,453 [Ruthie] Davohnte's comfort zone was home. 173 00:08:32,556 --> 00:08:34,039 But due to where he was at, 174 00:08:34,141 --> 00:08:37,660 he didn't even wanna go smoke a cigarette out there by hisself. 175 00:08:37,763 --> 00:08:41,280 [Priddy] They continued to fight till the early hours of May 5th. 176 00:08:41,384 --> 00:08:42,763 At that point, she said, 177 00:08:42,866 --> 00:08:45,349 that they had been walking their separate ways to cool off. 178 00:08:46,246 --> 00:08:48,280 So they both left the hotel. 179 00:08:48,384 --> 00:08:50,763 [Ruthie] She just put it like he was just-- walked off on her. 180 00:08:50,867 --> 00:08:53,349 So, we didn't take it to the extreme. 181 00:08:53,453 --> 00:08:55,522 We kinda took it with a grain of salt in a way 182 00:08:55,625 --> 00:08:56,522 because this is what he does. 183 00:08:56,625 --> 00:08:58,832 He'll get away from her, if he needs to. 184 00:09:00,901 --> 00:09:02,487 [Priddy] She wanted to go see the sunrise. 185 00:09:02,591 --> 00:09:05,005 And Davohnte went the other direction. 186 00:09:08,660 --> 00:09:10,246 And the morning on May 5th, 187 00:09:10,349 --> 00:09:12,729 she saw Davohnte on the other side of the street 188 00:09:12,832 --> 00:09:14,315 on North Mount Shasta Boulevard, 189 00:09:14,418 --> 00:09:15,901 walking in a different direction. 190 00:09:16,625 --> 00:09:18,418 She stated that he still looked mad, 191 00:09:18,522 --> 00:09:21,867 so she continued back to the motel. 192 00:09:21,970 --> 00:09:25,487 Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend explained that this is common in their relationship. 193 00:09:25,591 --> 00:09:26,729 That when they get into fights, 194 00:09:26,832 --> 00:09:29,005 they both agree to go separate ways for colling off. 195 00:09:30,591 --> 00:09:32,522 But now, it's been over 24 hours, 196 00:09:32,625 --> 00:09:34,073 and this is not normal. 197 00:09:34,867 --> 00:09:37,418 Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend told the officer 198 00:09:37,522 --> 00:09:40,867 that he was wearing black sweatpants and had on 49er flipflops. 199 00:09:40,970 --> 00:09:43,625 And she said that his phone was broken. 200 00:09:48,970 --> 00:09:51,418 She was all over the place. 201 00:09:51,522 --> 00:09:54,660 She did not seem to concerned, or sad, or upset 202 00:09:54,763 --> 00:09:57,177 that he has not been found. 203 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,660 In my experience, she was acting way out of line 204 00:09:59,763 --> 00:10:01,798 for someone that she should be caring about 205 00:10:01,901 --> 00:10:03,280 filing a Missing Persons report. 206 00:10:05,418 --> 00:10:08,108 [Tessa] Usually, missing people in Mount Shasta 207 00:10:08,211 --> 00:10:10,832 need a rescue on the mountain or that type of thing. 208 00:10:10,936 --> 00:10:14,832 So to hear that someone could potentially be missing, 209 00:10:14,936 --> 00:10:17,418 and they're not off of a hiking trail, 210 00:10:17,522 --> 00:10:18,832 was definitely alarming. 211 00:10:21,832 --> 00:10:24,729 [Anthony] The family, we went up to Mount Shasta, immediately. 212 00:10:24,832 --> 00:10:26,556 At that point, I was really worried. 213 00:10:26,660 --> 00:10:28,073 I was spooked. 214 00:10:28,177 --> 00:10:31,453 I just remember being afraid, like, "What it we can't find him?" 215 00:10:34,625 --> 00:10:36,694 [Terri] On the drive up there, 216 00:10:36,798 --> 00:10:40,729 I'm thinking every moment, every second of the day, 217 00:10:40,832 --> 00:10:42,487 "Where's my baby? And what happened to him? 218 00:10:42,591 --> 00:10:43,694 "Where did he go?" 219 00:10:43,798 --> 00:10:45,039 I just was like-- 220 00:10:45,142 --> 00:10:46,867 just "save the day" mode. 221 00:10:46,970 --> 00:10:51,211 I know that his girlfriend knows more. 222 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:55,142 She was with him and I want answers. 223 00:11:05,867 --> 00:11:07,867 [Ruthie] Before Davohnte went missing, 224 00:11:07,970 --> 00:11:10,798 he was going through some things, emotionally. 225 00:11:11,832 --> 00:11:13,729 He was in a very, very hard space. 226 00:11:15,591 --> 00:11:21,901 In 2017, he was shot 227 00:11:22,005 --> 00:11:23,487 on our front porch. 228 00:11:25,763 --> 00:11:28,832 From a bullet that was meant for someone else. 229 00:11:34,936 --> 00:11:36,660 [Anthony] It wasn't his fault. 230 00:11:36,763 --> 00:11:39,591 He just-- He wasn't a person that was 231 00:11:39,694 --> 00:11:42,142 involved in, like, any problems 232 00:11:42,246 --> 00:11:44,970 or any, like-- any type of street issues. 233 00:11:45,073 --> 00:11:47,487 He was definitely, like, a mistarget. 234 00:11:47,591 --> 00:11:50,556 I think somebody rode by and thought he was somebody else. 235 00:11:51,763 --> 00:11:53,349 I know that did affect him. 236 00:11:53,453 --> 00:11:56,073 Like, that is a safe haven, it's his home. 237 00:11:57,625 --> 00:12:01,556 What a freak accident to get shot on his own porch 238 00:12:01,660 --> 00:12:03,280 from a bullet meant for someone else. 239 00:12:05,556 --> 00:12:08,625 So, pretty much at 25, he was old. 240 00:12:08,729 --> 00:12:11,177 He felt as if his life had stopped. 241 00:12:12,936 --> 00:12:14,970 I think-- Well, a lot of people don't think of 242 00:12:15,073 --> 00:12:17,315 or understand, it's like when you get shot, 243 00:12:17,418 --> 00:12:18,970 there's the physical pain you gotta recover from 244 00:12:19,073 --> 00:12:23,729 and there's, like, a big, traumatic mental thing 245 00:12:23,832 --> 00:12:26,901 you have to overcome and it's hard. 246 00:12:27,005 --> 00:12:31,108 So, he definitely did, like, smoke weed or, like, drink some alcohol. 247 00:12:31,211 --> 00:12:33,763 Might have helped cope with the pain. 248 00:12:33,867 --> 00:12:36,177 [Terri] He wouldn't let it keep him down. 249 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,039 He pushed himself to heal more quickly than he should have. 250 00:12:40,142 --> 00:12:43,073 And it caused him to walk with a slight limp. 251 00:12:43,177 --> 00:12:45,729 And it caused him to be depressed. 252 00:12:46,384 --> 00:12:48,142 Like, "Why me? 253 00:12:48,246 --> 00:12:50,418 "I'm a good person. 254 00:12:50,522 --> 00:12:51,798 "I'm good to everybody. 255 00:12:51,901 --> 00:12:53,798 "Why did this happen to me?" 256 00:12:55,418 --> 00:12:58,625 [Ruthie] He still seemed prayerful and hopeful. 257 00:12:58,729 --> 00:13:00,660 But he admitted that he just wasn't well. 258 00:13:00,763 --> 00:13:02,798 It got hard for him. 259 00:13:02,901 --> 00:13:08,349 He's kinda private. He wouldn't, like, wanna share that much. 260 00:13:08,453 --> 00:13:12,280 I pretty much had to push him, you know. 261 00:13:13,418 --> 00:13:16,142 To let him know that life is not over 262 00:13:16,246 --> 00:13:18,418 and God has a plan for him. 263 00:13:19,625 --> 00:13:21,729 That's why he's still here. 264 00:13:25,936 --> 00:13:28,108 [Anthony] He definitely, like, wanted to get, like, clean. 265 00:13:28,211 --> 00:13:29,867 Wanted to be sober. 266 00:13:29,970 --> 00:13:33,867 He used to go to the gym everyday, like-- and that kept him sober. 267 00:13:33,970 --> 00:13:36,625 He definitely was-- was trying to, like, 268 00:13:36,729 --> 00:13:37,660 still progress. 269 00:13:37,763 --> 00:13:40,522 But it's hard. It's hard. 270 00:13:40,625 --> 00:13:45,349 [Ruthie] That's something that I think the girlfriend definitely took advantage of. 271 00:13:45,453 --> 00:13:47,349 and kept him like a carrot on the string pulled, like... 272 00:13:47,453 --> 00:13:49,660 She kept the alcohol and the bottles going 273 00:13:49,763 --> 00:13:52,246 because I think she did drugs, herself. 274 00:13:54,177 --> 00:13:57,694 [Anthony] For him and missy, they definitely fought a lot. 275 00:13:57,798 --> 00:14:00,729 I know that they weren't a happy couple. 276 00:14:00,832 --> 00:14:01,901 I would say that. 277 00:14:02,005 --> 00:14:04,349 She was very, very demanding. 278 00:14:04,453 --> 00:14:06,453 And she wanted to, always, like, pick a fight. 279 00:14:06,556 --> 00:14:10,315 She wanted to make sure that she was being heard, let's put it that way. 280 00:14:10,418 --> 00:14:15,039 [Anthony] Even though they had weird and irritating and long arguments, 281 00:14:15,142 --> 00:14:18,453 I'd never thought about my brother just going missing. 282 00:14:24,798 --> 00:14:29,384 [Ruthie] We went up to Mount Shasta on Thursday, May 7th. 283 00:14:29,487 --> 00:14:32,073 And my ride going up to Mount Shasta 284 00:14:32,177 --> 00:14:33,384 was so blurry. 285 00:14:33,487 --> 00:14:35,729 I need to get a conversation with the girlfriend. 286 00:14:35,832 --> 00:14:37,280 I need to talk to her, right now. 287 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:39,453 [Anthony] By the time we got up there, 288 00:14:39,556 --> 00:14:42,280 like, his girlfriend wasn't really helping. 289 00:14:42,384 --> 00:14:44,177 She was, like, speaking in, like, riddles and stuff. 290 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,177 Like, it was weird. 291 00:14:46,177 --> 00:14:47,453 [Ruthie] When I talked to her, 292 00:14:47,556 --> 00:14:49,936 she makes sure to give this narrative 293 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:52,005 of, like, him just walking off in the sunset 294 00:14:52,108 --> 00:14:53,556 with a pina colada 295 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:55,694 versus explaining 296 00:14:55,798 --> 00:14:57,625 that this is just something he would never do. 297 00:15:00,005 --> 00:15:02,005 [Anthony] You could tell, in her mind, 298 00:15:02,108 --> 00:15:03,832 it was, like, spinning. 299 00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:05,970 It was spinning and it was constantly going 300 00:15:06,073 --> 00:15:08,073 and it was stuff and it was just different stuff 301 00:15:08,177 --> 00:15:09,694 and she was just blurting it out. 302 00:15:09,798 --> 00:15:11,142 She'd be like, "Oh, Davohnte's here. 303 00:15:11,246 --> 00:15:12,453 "I can feel him, he's here. 304 00:15:12,556 --> 00:15:13,522 "Oh, I think he's crazy. 305 00:15:13,625 --> 00:15:15,349 "But, like, this don't make sense. 306 00:15:15,453 --> 00:15:16,832 "'Cause it the tree started talking to the moon, 307 00:15:16,936 --> 00:15:18,177 "and the moon started talking to the stars..." 308 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,832 She was doing stuff like that. 309 00:15:19,936 --> 00:15:22,522 To the point it had us, like, "Oh, my God." 310 00:15:22,625 --> 00:15:26,660 [stuttering] We couldn't even fully take her serious, so much. 311 00:15:26,763 --> 00:15:27,901 But we were trying to 312 00:15:28,005 --> 00:15:29,556 because she was the only person that was there 313 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:30,487 Which felt like-- 314 00:15:30,591 --> 00:15:31,763 Everything she had us doing 315 00:15:31,867 --> 00:15:33,039 was, like, throwing us off. 316 00:15:34,556 --> 00:15:36,349 I'm like, "Why is she crazy?" 317 00:15:36,453 --> 00:15:38,453 "What happened?" That was a big thing for me. 318 00:15:38,556 --> 00:15:40,108 I'm like, "If something happened to my brother..." 319 00:15:40,211 --> 00:15:42,487 Like, "Did something happen to me brother? 'Cause why is she loopy?" 320 00:15:43,349 --> 00:15:44,660 [Terri] Something was wrong. 321 00:15:45,556 --> 00:15:48,625 And thinking back now... 322 00:15:48,729 --> 00:15:51,901 Something happened to him while in her persons. 323 00:15:53,108 --> 00:15:55,108 I believed that the girlfriend 324 00:15:55,211 --> 00:15:58,384 had something to do with Davohnte going missing. 325 00:15:59,901 --> 00:16:01,315 Her narrative was almost, like, 326 00:16:01,418 --> 00:16:03,073 derailing purposely 327 00:16:03,177 --> 00:16:05,729 to give this, like, voluntary missing story. 328 00:16:08,763 --> 00:16:10,039 [Terri] In my opinion, 329 00:16:10,142 --> 00:16:12,798 the police department didn't take it seriously. 330 00:16:12,901 --> 00:16:16,039 By him being a 28 year old-- 331 00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:19,832 and to them, you know, he probably was "got tired of her and walked away". 332 00:16:20,970 --> 00:16:21,867 Not my child. 333 00:16:21,970 --> 00:16:24,901 I tried to enforce them to do more. 334 00:16:25,005 --> 00:16:28,039 I feel like there's certain types of disappearances 335 00:16:28,142 --> 00:16:29,729 that get more recognition 336 00:16:29,832 --> 00:16:31,729 than someone like my nephew, 337 00:16:31,832 --> 00:16:34,901 I feel like, because he's a Black African American man. 338 00:16:35,729 --> 00:16:38,177 Later, his age too. 339 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,039 Just like, kinda just falls off people back. 340 00:16:42,763 --> 00:16:46,349 [Priddy] We thought, maybe, Davohnte Morgan just went and got another hotel. 341 00:16:46,453 --> 00:16:49,073 And didn't wanna be around the girlfriend 342 00:16:49,177 --> 00:16:50,867 But as soon as the family showed up, 343 00:16:50,970 --> 00:16:53,349 we could see, just by speaking to them 344 00:16:53,453 --> 00:16:55,384 that they were extremely concerned. 345 00:16:55,487 --> 00:16:58,798 Completely opposite of how Davohnte's girlfriend was acting. 346 00:16:58,901 --> 00:17:00,315 And we knew it was serious. 347 00:17:00,418 --> 00:17:03,832 And it sounds like he was a extremely family-oriented guy. 348 00:17:03,936 --> 00:17:05,591 And he would not just voluntarily go missing 349 00:17:05,694 --> 00:17:08,591 without at least calling his brother. 350 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:11,555 Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend told us that his phone was broken. 351 00:17:11,660 --> 00:17:13,383 So, a ping might not bring up 352 00:17:13,487 --> 00:17:15,624 an accurate location to search. 353 00:17:15,728 --> 00:17:19,315 So, unfortunately, phone records were not helpful. 354 00:17:22,867 --> 00:17:26,039 The police didn't have any information for us. No leads. 355 00:17:26,832 --> 00:17:28,453 I was frustrated. 356 00:17:28,555 --> 00:17:32,384 So, we made our first official flyers and gathered a search party. 357 00:17:35,660 --> 00:17:37,384 [bleep] in the woods. 358 00:17:37,487 --> 00:17:40,073 It's not a good combination. We love you 'Vohnte. 359 00:17:40,177 --> 00:17:42,349 [bleep] you know we love you. We out here... 360 00:17:43,901 --> 00:17:45,142 We got-- put out flyers. 361 00:17:45,246 --> 00:17:47,108 Talked to everybody that we could. 362 00:17:47,211 --> 00:17:48,660 To the point where we'd be on the streets, 363 00:17:48,763 --> 00:17:49,867 somebody would be passing by in a car, 364 00:17:49,970 --> 00:17:51,246 walking my way, and I say, "Excuse me. 365 00:17:51,349 --> 00:17:53,349 "My brother is missing. Can I please just give you a flyer?" 366 00:17:57,211 --> 00:18:00,418 [Terri] Meanwhile, the girlfriend keeps saying, "On this day, 367 00:18:00,522 --> 00:18:02,763 "Davohnte is gonna show up. He's gonna manifest. 368 00:18:02,867 --> 00:18:04,832 "He's gonna reappear." And all this 369 00:18:04,936 --> 00:18:07,073 At this point, nobody-- Everybody is scared of her. 370 00:18:07,177 --> 00:18:09,487 You know, like, "What is she trying to do to us?" 371 00:18:09,591 --> 00:18:12,729 I mean, what happened to my son? 372 00:18:15,418 --> 00:18:18,384 [Priddy] Then we got a report from a local resident 373 00:18:18,487 --> 00:18:20,522 that she had remembered 374 00:18:20,625 --> 00:18:22,556 a couple fighting outside of her house, 375 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:26,211 on May 5th, the day Davohnte Morgan went missing. 376 00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:30,625 The resident is located just north of the Cold Creek Inn. 377 00:18:30,729 --> 00:18:33,349 And she heard them fighting at 9:30 in the morning. 378 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,832 Davohnte' girlfriend initially told us 379 00:18:36,936 --> 00:18:40,453 that they did not speak to each other that morning. 380 00:18:40,556 --> 00:18:45,211 This contradicts, what the witness saw and heard, with her timeline. 381 00:18:45,315 --> 00:18:48,384 We are now growing way more suspicious of the girlfriend. 382 00:18:48,487 --> 00:18:51,246 But we don't have any hard evidence against the girlfriend. 383 00:18:59,349 --> 00:19:02,694 [Ruthie] All she kept saying is that where she was, emotionally, 384 00:19:02,798 --> 00:19:04,729 and what she was going through 385 00:19:04,832 --> 00:19:06,073 while she was up in Mount Shasta. 386 00:19:06,177 --> 00:19:07,591 And I remember me stopping her, and saying, 387 00:19:07,694 --> 00:19:09,694 "I don't give-- I don't give a [bleep] about you. 388 00:19:09,798 --> 00:19:10,763 "I don't. 389 00:19:10,867 --> 00:19:13,177 "I'm here for my nephew." 390 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,177 She needed to go home, back to San Francisco. 391 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,039 So, we asked his girlfriend to leave. 392 00:19:19,142 --> 00:19:21,246 And we never really heard from her, after that. 393 00:19:21,349 --> 00:19:25,280 Due to the strange circumstances with Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend, 394 00:19:25,384 --> 00:19:27,142 we did change it to-- 395 00:19:27,246 --> 00:19:31,936 not "voluntary missing" to "suspicious" missing person's case. 396 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:35,039 I believe she knows more than she's giving. 397 00:19:35,142 --> 00:19:39,142 We don't have anything to charge her with or hold her on. 398 00:19:39,246 --> 00:19:41,384 [Anthony] I was just, like, "I'm not gonna get any answers." 399 00:19:41,487 --> 00:19:42,970 And I'm like-- At this point, 400 00:19:43,073 --> 00:19:45,763 I didn't trust nobody to find my brother but me. 401 00:19:53,901 --> 00:19:57,142 [Priddy] It's May 14th, and we still don't have any hard leads. 402 00:19:57,246 --> 00:19:59,005 So, right now, we are trying to track 403 00:19:59,108 --> 00:20:01,625 Davohnte Morgan, as best we can with their surveillance. 404 00:20:01,729 --> 00:20:03,625 Surveillance is really huge for us in Mount Shasta 405 00:20:03,729 --> 00:20:05,625 because we are such a small agency 406 00:20:05,729 --> 00:20:06,901 and such a small a small town. 407 00:20:07,005 --> 00:20:09,660 We don't have CCTV like a lot of bigger cities. 408 00:20:09,763 --> 00:20:11,556 So, when someone does go missing 409 00:20:11,660 --> 00:20:13,005 in the city limits of Mount Shasta, 410 00:20:13,108 --> 00:20:15,142 we immediately try to hop on that 411 00:20:15,246 --> 00:20:16,556 and go to local businesses 412 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:18,280 just so we can see is they have cameras 413 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:19,522 that caught anything. 414 00:20:19,625 --> 00:20:21,798 We were able to obtain ten different camera angles 415 00:20:21,901 --> 00:20:23,625 of Davohnte walking. 416 00:20:23,729 --> 00:20:25,660 The first time we locate Davohnte Morgan, 417 00:20:25,763 --> 00:20:28,798 on May 5th, the day he went missing, 418 00:20:28,901 --> 00:20:32,694 we have him walking in front of the police department, 419 00:20:32,798 --> 00:20:35,315 and we could see him crossing the street 420 00:20:35,418 --> 00:20:36,832 on Mount Shasta Boulevard 421 00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:38,901 heading west on Lake Street. 422 00:20:39,005 --> 00:20:42,522 We catch him, walking again, west on Lake Street, 423 00:20:42,625 --> 00:20:44,246 where he continues walking, 424 00:20:45,556 --> 00:20:47,729 And then he will eventually-- We'll see him cross 425 00:20:47,832 --> 00:20:50,936 Lake Street and go to the local Vallero gas station. 426 00:20:55,763 --> 00:20:57,867 So, then next we know he is at Valero, 427 00:20:57,970 --> 00:20:59,315 so we go to Valero. 428 00:20:59,418 --> 00:21:02,798 and try to get their surveillance system. 429 00:21:02,901 --> 00:21:06,108 And this is where we get Davohnte Morgan, in this clip, 430 00:21:06,211 --> 00:21:07,487 making a purchase. 431 00:21:09,211 --> 00:21:11,591 So, after Davohnte Morgan made the purchase, 432 00:21:11,694 --> 00:21:13,901 he headed back east on Lake Street, 433 00:21:14,005 --> 00:21:15,246 past the police department, 434 00:21:15,349 --> 00:21:17,522 and then headed back north the way he came 435 00:21:17,625 --> 00:21:19,729 on North Mount Shasta Boulevard. 436 00:21:19,832 --> 00:21:21,556 And the next known footage we have 437 00:21:21,660 --> 00:21:22,591 is at the Jefferson School 438 00:21:22,694 --> 00:21:24,211 on the North Mount Shasta Boulevard. 439 00:21:24,315 --> 00:21:26,211 Which is approximately a quarter mile 440 00:21:26,315 --> 00:21:28,108 north of the Cold Creek Inn. 441 00:21:28,211 --> 00:21:29,694 So, he has passed the hotel 442 00:21:29,798 --> 00:21:31,694 and he is continuing to walk. 443 00:21:31,798 --> 00:21:33,625 Approximately, two minutes later, 444 00:21:33,729 --> 00:21:36,522 he's seen passing Jefferson School, now heading south. 445 00:21:36,625 --> 00:21:39,591 Back towards the Cold Creek Inn, on North Mount Shasta Boulevard. 446 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:43,522 He also is picked up on Chestnut Street 447 00:21:43,625 --> 00:21:46,418 by a local crystal store on their surveillance, 448 00:21:46,522 --> 00:21:49,556 where he is seen heading north on Chestnut Street. 449 00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:51,418 And then making a right-hand turn, 450 00:21:51,522 --> 00:21:53,280 heading east on Alma Street. 451 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:01,280 The next known location Davohnte is picked up on camera 452 00:22:01,384 --> 00:22:04,246 is on Alma Street, heading east. 453 00:22:04,349 --> 00:22:07,763 And the Sisson middle School picked him up on camera. 454 00:22:10,763 --> 00:22:13,694 And he is continuing to walk east on Alma Street. 455 00:22:16,453 --> 00:22:19,073 Sisson Middle School also picks him up 456 00:22:19,177 --> 00:22:20,522 on another camera, 457 00:22:20,625 --> 00:22:24,073 continuing on Alma Street, till he hits Rockfellow. 458 00:22:25,694 --> 00:22:28,625 Davohnte then is seen crossing Rockfellow, 459 00:22:28,729 --> 00:22:31,073 before he turns west, 460 00:22:31,177 --> 00:22:33,487 heading down Rockfellow. 461 00:22:33,591 --> 00:22:36,798 Which would continue back down towards the Cold Creek Inn. 462 00:22:36,901 --> 00:22:39,073 And he doesn't appear to be drunk, 463 00:22:39,177 --> 00:22:40,936 he doesn't appear to be on drugs. 464 00:22:42,039 --> 00:22:44,556 And that's the last time we have him on video surveillance. 465 00:22:51,556 --> 00:22:54,108 Everywhere Davohnte was picked up on security camera, 466 00:22:54,211 --> 00:22:57,142 is a very normal, safe place to be walking. 467 00:22:57,246 --> 00:22:59,108 There is no suspicious activity. 468 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:01,108 This is where all the mom and pop shops are. 469 00:23:01,211 --> 00:23:05,418 It's a very normal place to see someone walking everyday, all day. 470 00:23:05,522 --> 00:23:07,556 After reviewing the pattern 471 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:10,384 and the path that Davohnte is seen walking, 472 00:23:10,487 --> 00:23:12,660 it doesn't seem out of the ordinary at all. 473 00:23:12,763 --> 00:23:14,867 It's all within couple minute walking distance 474 00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:16,556 of the hotel that he's staying at. 475 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:18,039 And it's a beautiful day 476 00:23:18,142 --> 00:23:20,142 and he's just casually out on a stroll. 477 00:23:22,487 --> 00:23:25,039 "Did he seem distraught? Did he seem like he was all over the place? 478 00:23:25,142 --> 00:23:26,315 "Did he seem like he was just walking, 479 00:23:26,418 --> 00:23:28,039 "trying to get a breath of fresh air, 480 00:23:28,142 --> 00:23:30,660 "and he was gonna go back to the hotel?" 481 00:23:30,763 --> 00:23:33,901 We were, like, "Oh, my God. This is just another 482 00:23:34,005 --> 00:23:35,729 "key, you know, piece to the puzzle." 483 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,039 [Anthony] He looked normal. 484 00:23:38,142 --> 00:23:39,970 He just looked like he was going for a stroll. 485 00:23:40,073 --> 00:23:41,867 And enjoying the town. 486 00:23:41,970 --> 00:23:43,970 It seemed like, like he was chilling. 487 00:23:44,073 --> 00:23:45,142 Finding his peace. 488 00:23:47,211 --> 00:23:51,694 [Priddy] So then, we received a tip that between 9:30 and 10:00 am, 489 00:23:51,798 --> 00:23:54,418 a local mail-delivery person stopped 490 00:23:54,522 --> 00:23:57,694 and saw Davohnte in the area of Rockfellow and Alma. 491 00:23:57,798 --> 00:23:58,763 He looked a little disoriented. 492 00:23:58,867 --> 00:24:01,384 And asked for instructions to the hotel 493 00:24:01,487 --> 00:24:03,039 over on Alma Street. 494 00:24:03,142 --> 00:24:05,901 The mailman expressed to him that we don't have any hotels on Alma Street, 495 00:24:06,005 --> 00:24:07,729 but we have an apartment complex there. 496 00:24:07,832 --> 00:24:10,901 And gave Davohnte directions to that. 497 00:24:11,005 --> 00:24:13,039 The Alma Street apartment complex 498 00:24:13,142 --> 00:24:14,936 is not near the Cold Creek Inn. 499 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:19,315 The mailman, later, saw Davohnte Morgan on Alma Street 500 00:24:19,418 --> 00:24:21,453 but not near the apartment complex. 501 00:24:21,556 --> 00:24:24,798 So he stopped again and rerouted him to that area. 502 00:24:25,418 --> 00:24:26,625 Later, the same mailman, 503 00:24:26,729 --> 00:24:28,832 located Davohnte Morgan 504 00:24:28,936 --> 00:24:31,280 off of Rockfellow on Ski Bowl Drive. 505 00:24:31,384 --> 00:24:33,901 This time he did not stop to speak with him. 506 00:24:36,177 --> 00:24:38,384 So, after reviewing all the surveillance, 507 00:24:38,487 --> 00:24:42,142 and nailing down all the times we have spotted Davohnte Morgan, 508 00:24:42,246 --> 00:24:44,867 we're looking to see, "Is he heading out of town? 509 00:24:44,970 --> 00:24:46,694 "Or is he heading up the mountain?" 510 00:24:46,798 --> 00:24:48,625 So we can branch out. 511 00:24:49,867 --> 00:24:51,108 Or we are looking to see 512 00:24:51,211 --> 00:24:52,832 if he is picked up by someone. 513 00:24:52,936 --> 00:24:55,522 A vehicle, the girlfriend, we don't know. 514 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,177 [Clure] Just because that he was last seen walking in downtown, 515 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,280 certainly doesn't mean that that's where he went missing. 516 00:25:02,384 --> 00:25:05,142 Our downtown is only two miles in length 517 00:25:05,246 --> 00:25:07,315 and very condensed. 518 00:25:07,418 --> 00:25:09,556 Once you get outside of the downtown, 519 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:11,729 it's definitely easy to get lost. 520 00:25:16,177 --> 00:25:20,453 [Priddy] In Mount Shasta, we've never had a case like this, 521 00:25:20,556 --> 00:25:22,798 and so, it was extremely new to us. 522 00:25:22,901 --> 00:25:25,487 And hard-- And just hard to deal with 523 00:25:25,591 --> 00:25:27,315 because we don't have a detective unit. 524 00:25:27,418 --> 00:25:28,970 We have one officer at a time. 525 00:25:29,073 --> 00:25:30,832 We don't have search dogs. 526 00:25:30,936 --> 00:25:34,211 We don't have a lot of resources that, you know, a bigger city would have. 527 00:25:35,763 --> 00:25:37,211 By this time in the investigation, 528 00:25:37,315 --> 00:25:39,556 we had followed upon every lead. 529 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:43,349 And we realized that we needed outside support. 530 00:25:43,453 --> 00:25:46,625 In my experience, this Missing Persons case was unusual, 531 00:25:46,729 --> 00:25:48,591 and it continued to get more unusual. 532 00:25:51,729 --> 00:25:53,453 My name is Michael Burns. I was former deputy 533 00:25:53,556 --> 00:25:54,936 with the Siskiyou County Sheriff's office. 534 00:25:55,039 --> 00:25:57,522 And I ran the search and rescue program in Siskiyou County 535 00:25:57,625 --> 00:25:58,625 for about seven years. 536 00:25:58,729 --> 00:26:02,280 We began our search and rescue for Mr. Morgan 537 00:26:02,384 --> 00:26:03,832 in the general area here. 538 00:26:05,211 --> 00:26:07,832 We set what we call a wheel. 539 00:26:07,936 --> 00:26:10,246 We did it at a half-mile radius. 540 00:26:10,349 --> 00:26:14,798 From the parking lot, right behind the library. 541 00:26:14,901 --> 00:26:17,073 We started off with canvassing the area. 542 00:26:17,177 --> 00:26:18,729 with SAR volunteers, 543 00:26:18,832 --> 00:26:20,901 with vehicles. 544 00:26:21,005 --> 00:26:24,039 Going door-to door- handing out missing person flyers. 545 00:26:24,142 --> 00:26:27,108 Asking anybody if they had seen Mr. Morgan 546 00:26:27,211 --> 00:26:30,556 walking, or in the vicinity. 547 00:26:30,660 --> 00:26:33,832 That search then expanded into our wooded areas here. 548 00:26:34,694 --> 00:26:36,487 There's several wooded areas 549 00:26:36,591 --> 00:26:37,832 that were in that hub 550 00:26:37,936 --> 00:26:39,246 that we expanded into. 551 00:26:39,349 --> 00:26:41,108 We used search dogs. 552 00:26:41,211 --> 00:26:44,418 At that point, we were using air scent and tracking dogs 553 00:26:44,522 --> 00:26:46,867 in the wooded areas within our search hub. 554 00:26:48,522 --> 00:26:50,970 [Anthony] They tell us that the best time to start searching 555 00:26:51,073 --> 00:26:54,418 is the 24-48 hours after they've gone missing. 556 00:26:54,522 --> 00:26:57,832 'Cause after that it's hard to, like distinguish what has happened. 557 00:26:57,936 --> 00:26:59,384 By the time 48 hours came along, 558 00:26:59,487 --> 00:27:01,418 that's when we're reporting him missing. 559 00:27:01,522 --> 00:27:03,625 Honestly, I felt like those searches were just done 560 00:27:03,729 --> 00:27:05,315 'cause we complained long enough. 561 00:27:05,418 --> 00:27:07,211 And got them to get it done. 562 00:27:07,315 --> 00:27:09,453 Not like, um, because, "Oh, yeah. We're about to find him. 563 00:27:09,556 --> 00:27:10,867 "What's going on?" Like, "He's missing? 564 00:27:10,970 --> 00:27:12,625 "Okay, we need to go here, we need to look here. 565 00:27:12,729 --> 00:27:13,660 "We need to look there." 566 00:27:13,763 --> 00:27:15,177 That-- It wasn't that. 567 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,832 We got one search that was just, like, so vague. 568 00:27:17,936 --> 00:27:20,211 and just so, like... We did that ourself. 569 00:27:22,901 --> 00:27:25,418 [Priddy] We expanded our searched out 570 00:27:25,522 --> 00:27:27,487 by asking Southern Oregon Search and Rescue 571 00:27:27,591 --> 00:27:28,936 to assist in our area. 572 00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:31,315 And we expanded out a mile 573 00:27:31,418 --> 00:27:33,522 outside of the area he was last seen, 574 00:27:33,625 --> 00:27:35,384 and searched all possible areas. 575 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:40,936 We expanded as far as we could naturally take care of and use the resources for. 576 00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:43,832 Siskiyou County is 400 acres of wilderness 577 00:27:43,936 --> 00:27:47,522 the complete size of Hawaii. 578 00:27:47,625 --> 00:27:51,315 Outside of that you have millions and millions of acres 579 00:27:51,418 --> 00:27:52,556 of just woodland 580 00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:55,453 where it would be impossible and a waste of resource 581 00:27:55,556 --> 00:27:57,453 to continue searching 582 00:27:57,556 --> 00:27:59,073 without any leads. 583 00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:01,211 I do feel we went above and beyond 584 00:28:01,315 --> 00:28:03,211 and still are, to this day. 585 00:28:04,694 --> 00:28:06,867 In the search area that we searched, 586 00:28:06,970 --> 00:28:08,591 we did not locate anything 587 00:28:08,694 --> 00:28:10,384 pertaining to Mr. Morgan. 588 00:28:14,005 --> 00:28:15,970 [Priddy] So, as of one month into this investigation, 589 00:28:16,073 --> 00:28:18,177 we had followed up on every lead. 590 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,142 We'd had search and rescue. 591 00:28:20,246 --> 00:28:22,005 We had multiple outside agencies 592 00:28:22,108 --> 00:28:24,280 as far down as San Francisco, asking for help. 593 00:28:24,384 --> 00:28:25,694 The FBI. 594 00:28:25,798 --> 00:28:28,798 And we just still did not have any viable leads 595 00:28:28,901 --> 00:28:30,280 and we were hitting dead ends. 596 00:28:31,970 --> 00:28:34,970 We didn't have the biggest support from the police department. 597 00:28:35,073 --> 00:28:38,349 And we needed things to start rolling. 598 00:28:38,453 --> 00:28:40,522 I believe that this area, in particular, 599 00:28:40,625 --> 00:28:44,694 is known for all these dark sites, underworld type living. 600 00:28:44,798 --> 00:28:46,901 Underworld as in KKK. 601 00:28:47,005 --> 00:28:48,901 Coke. Underworld fighting. 602 00:28:49,005 --> 00:28:51,798 I'm like, "Anything could have happened to Vohnte. Anything." 603 00:28:56,556 --> 00:28:57,453 [narrator] Davohnte Morgan 604 00:28:57,556 --> 00:29:00,246 was last seen May 5th, 2020. 605 00:29:01,246 --> 00:29:03,832 [narrator reading] 606 00:29:14,177 --> 00:29:16,211 [Ruthie] By June 8th, it started to feel like 607 00:29:16,315 --> 00:29:19,039 everything got dried up in Mount Shasta. 608 00:29:19,142 --> 00:29:22,660 So, it was very vital for us to just do stuff. 609 00:29:22,763 --> 00:29:24,867 Sort of action into finding him. 610 00:29:24,970 --> 00:29:26,729 We had to do other things. 611 00:29:26,832 --> 00:29:29,142 [Anthony] We were trying to broadcast my brother any way we can. 612 00:29:29,246 --> 00:29:31,142 Only to, like, set Mount Shasta on fire. 613 00:29:32,453 --> 00:29:34,798 [Terri] We went and knocked door-to door. 614 00:29:35,487 --> 00:29:37,211 Whatever businesses were open. 615 00:29:37,315 --> 00:29:39,832 We put up flyers, you know, 616 00:29:39,936 --> 00:29:42,073 in the local establishments that we open. 617 00:29:42,177 --> 00:29:43,798 And in every car, 618 00:29:43,901 --> 00:29:45,418 on every pole, 619 00:29:45,522 --> 00:29:48,901 in the city, in the surrounding towns. 620 00:29:49,005 --> 00:29:51,418 And there is a hotline. 621 00:29:51,522 --> 00:29:54,798 And there is the $25,000 reward. 622 00:29:58,418 --> 00:30:00,246 We would go to supermarkets 623 00:30:00,349 --> 00:30:02,487 and snatch the loudspeaker 624 00:30:02,591 --> 00:30:04,005 and, like, we calling up 625 00:30:04,108 --> 00:30:05,660 to different parts of the mountains. 626 00:30:05,763 --> 00:30:09,039 Suspicious places that people aren't really, normally, like, going to, 627 00:30:09,142 --> 00:30:10,349 we went in. 628 00:30:10,453 --> 00:30:13,005 The people who were around the Mount Shasta were like, 629 00:30:13,108 --> 00:30:14,832 not inviting. 630 00:30:14,936 --> 00:30:16,798 And they definitely didn't want us there. 631 00:30:18,867 --> 00:30:22,384 [Anthony] It's also definitely, predominantly a white area. 632 00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:25,177 Vey handful of Black people that stay there. 633 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,867 It wasn't, ultimately, comfortable. 634 00:30:27,970 --> 00:30:31,142 Um, it's known that-- We've found out, being out there 635 00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,349 they have, like, active KKK. 636 00:30:33,453 --> 00:30:36,936 And heard, like the leader or somebody who runs the KKK 637 00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:40,591 drives through the town with, like, a big Confederate flag on the side of the truck. 638 00:30:40,694 --> 00:30:42,453 That was something that we had to see everyday. 639 00:30:43,694 --> 00:30:46,384 [Terri] My interaction with everybody 640 00:30:46,487 --> 00:30:47,798 was peaceful. 641 00:30:47,901 --> 00:30:50,832 But Mount Shasta is, I hate to say it, 642 00:30:50,936 --> 00:30:52,625 in this day and age, racist. 643 00:30:53,315 --> 00:30:54,384 [scoffs] 644 00:30:55,453 --> 00:30:57,280 That wasn't too helpful. [chuckles] 645 00:30:59,418 --> 00:31:01,901 [Anthony] We would spend the whole day putting up flyers. 646 00:31:02,005 --> 00:31:03,763 Like we would spend all day, hours. 647 00:31:03,867 --> 00:31:05,867 And we'll come out the next morning, and they'll all be gone. 648 00:31:05,970 --> 00:31:07,246 Except for, like, a few. 649 00:31:07,349 --> 00:31:08,970 Even some stores were taking them down 650 00:31:09,073 --> 00:31:10,625 after we put them up in there. 651 00:31:10,729 --> 00:31:12,763 Why are people taking it down? 652 00:31:12,867 --> 00:31:14,970 Is it just because he is a Black male that's missing up here? 653 00:31:15,073 --> 00:31:19,108 Or is it because there's somebody somewhere that doesn't want 654 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:20,625 him to be seen and broadcast 655 00:31:20,729 --> 00:31:22,487 on a bigger level across town 656 00:31:22,591 --> 00:31:24,660 because something malicious might have happened. 657 00:31:28,729 --> 00:31:30,556 I remember we went out to a campsite. 658 00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:34,073 Ad we began showing them, like, flyers, like, "Have you seen my brother?" 659 00:31:34,177 --> 00:31:37,453 Took the flyer and was like, "No, we ain't seen him. 660 00:31:37,556 --> 00:31:41,280 "But if we do, we'll tie him to a tree in the back and give you a call." 661 00:31:41,384 --> 00:31:43,108 Same person pulled out guns on us. 662 00:31:43,211 --> 00:31:45,073 And we had to leave off the property. 663 00:31:45,522 --> 00:31:46,901 It was upsetting. 664 00:31:48,522 --> 00:31:50,384 [Ruthie] We knew that we were in a area 665 00:31:50,487 --> 00:31:52,384 that was not safe for us. 666 00:31:52,487 --> 00:31:54,625 We were told, "Don't come this way. 667 00:31:54,729 --> 00:31:56,625 "Don't look this way." 668 00:31:56,729 --> 00:32:00,108 We got a bird-- What was it? Like, a chicken foot thrown at us? 669 00:32:00,211 --> 00:32:03,142 A live chicken foot thrown at us while we were putting out flyers. 670 00:32:03,246 --> 00:32:06,660 It's likeThe Twilight Zone up there, seriously. 671 00:32:06,763 --> 00:32:09,867 And when night fall, it was just a different feel, like... 672 00:32:09,970 --> 00:32:12,901 It seemed nice, but when that night fall, 673 00:32:13,005 --> 00:32:16,142 you seen what it really-- you know, the skeletons of the town. 674 00:32:16,246 --> 00:32:17,970 The dark side of the town. 675 00:32:18,073 --> 00:32:21,936 We definitely made it clear that we were here for peace. 676 00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:23,763 But we definitely didn't back down either. 677 00:32:23,867 --> 00:32:25,453 No one was gonna drive us away. 678 00:32:26,246 --> 00:32:27,591 We made that clear. 679 00:32:30,487 --> 00:32:33,487 [Priddy] Hate crimes do have to be reported to the Department of Justice, 680 00:32:33,591 --> 00:32:35,453 and I know for a fact, in the last ten years 681 00:32:35,556 --> 00:32:36,522 that I've worked for the department, 682 00:32:36,625 --> 00:32:38,453 we have not reported one. 683 00:32:38,556 --> 00:32:44,005 We are Mount Shasta and we are very equality-based. 684 00:32:44,108 --> 00:32:46,901 And would love diversity. 685 00:32:47,005 --> 00:32:50,832 We are a community of a lot of different people. 686 00:32:50,936 --> 00:32:52,729 We were founded by Italian immigrants 687 00:32:52,832 --> 00:32:54,625 who came to work in the lumber mill. 688 00:32:54,729 --> 00:32:55,694 That's kind of how it started. 689 00:32:55,798 --> 00:32:58,867 And we are still a majority 690 00:32:58,970 --> 00:33:02,867 Italian American community that has now grown. 691 00:33:02,970 --> 00:33:06,453 And our surrounding communities are largely diverse. 692 00:33:06,556 --> 00:33:08,867 More so that we are. 693 00:33:08,970 --> 00:33:11,625 But we would welcome diversity with open arms. 694 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:17,039 [Ruthie] We were walking on public property 695 00:33:17,142 --> 00:33:19,005 and then you just get on to private property, 696 00:33:19,108 --> 00:33:20,280 and you don't know. 697 00:33:20,384 --> 00:33:22,625 So, you'd be told and you'd be warned. 698 00:33:25,453 --> 00:33:28,073 But as I start learning of all that took place, 699 00:33:28,177 --> 00:33:32,039 I'm like, "Lord knows what could have happened." 700 00:33:32,142 --> 00:33:33,522 [Anthony] I think he could have been targeted 701 00:33:33,625 --> 00:33:36,073 because he was an outsider, and from the city. 702 00:33:36,177 --> 00:33:37,867 If they were targeting Black people out there. 703 00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:40,349 I don't know. I don't know, like... 704 00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:43,108 Maybe there was some foul play. 705 00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:47,039 [Clure] We are not a racist community. 706 00:33:47,142 --> 00:33:49,487 We are a community of love and respect. 707 00:33:49,591 --> 00:33:51,729 And open arms. 708 00:33:51,832 --> 00:33:54,522 And setting foot into this community, 709 00:33:54,625 --> 00:33:56,177 it would take ten minutes to know 710 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,970 that that's exactly who we are. 711 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,591 [Anthony] What's going on up here? Like... 712 00:34:04,694 --> 00:34:06,005 Something's going on up here. 713 00:34:06,108 --> 00:34:07,005 And it's not making sense. 714 00:34:11,211 --> 00:34:12,936 "Do you think I could-- Can I have a moment of you time? 715 00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:14,418 I wanna talk to you about my brother." 716 00:34:14,521 --> 00:34:16,452 He was like, "Your brother?" He's like, "Davohnte is your brother?" 717 00:34:16,556 --> 00:34:18,798 I'm like, "Yeah." Like, "Davohnte, that's my brother." 718 00:34:18,901 --> 00:34:21,349 And he told me, "This is what I personally heard." 719 00:34:21,452 --> 00:34:23,315 He said, "These guys drove him somewhere. 720 00:34:23,418 --> 00:34:26,142 "And then was, like trying to rob him, for his money." 721 00:34:26,246 --> 00:34:27,556 My brother was not, like, going for it. 722 00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:29,452 So, he fought. He fought. 723 00:34:29,556 --> 00:34:31,211 And they ended up stabbing him and pushing him in the river. 724 00:34:40,142 --> 00:34:42,452 [Priddy] Davohnte Morgan's brother heard one story 725 00:34:42,556 --> 00:34:44,556 that Davohnte Morgan had been 726 00:34:44,660 --> 00:34:47,349 taken in a white van and went to 727 00:34:47,452 --> 00:34:49,073 a rural area out in the woods, 728 00:34:49,177 --> 00:34:51,073 behind a lake called Twin Arrows. 729 00:34:51,177 --> 00:34:54,246 It's a wooden camp ground up behind Lake Siskiyou. 730 00:34:54,349 --> 00:34:56,521 About four miles outside of town. 731 00:35:01,763 --> 00:35:04,005 [Priddy] We did send an officer out there. 732 00:35:04,108 --> 00:35:06,625 And were not able to locate anything. 733 00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:08,073 And several people were contacted 734 00:35:08,177 --> 00:35:11,418 confirming that Davohnte Morgan had not been at that area. 735 00:35:11,522 --> 00:35:13,798 After investigating the area of Twin Arrows, 736 00:35:13,901 --> 00:35:15,522 I'm speaking to everyone. 737 00:35:15,625 --> 00:35:18,556 We did not feel it was important to search the river. 738 00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:21,901 So everything came to a dead end. 739 00:35:25,108 --> 00:35:27,453 [Ruthie] We put the money on the reward. 740 00:35:27,556 --> 00:35:30,936 But we would get these big stories from people, 741 00:35:31,039 --> 00:35:33,453 and it would just be, like, a dead-end. 742 00:35:33,556 --> 00:35:36,832 We were distraught. We didn't know what to do. 743 00:35:36,936 --> 00:35:42,039 [Priddy] At this time, the family has also offered a reward for his return. 744 00:35:42,142 --> 00:35:45,246 So, having a reward with a Missing Person is great. 745 00:35:45,349 --> 00:35:47,108 And does generate lots of good leads. 746 00:35:47,211 --> 00:35:48,142 But unfortunately, 747 00:35:48,246 --> 00:35:49,694 there are some leads that come in 748 00:35:49,798 --> 00:35:51,660 where people are just trying to take advantage 749 00:35:51,763 --> 00:35:53,005 of the reward money, 750 00:35:53,108 --> 00:35:55,005 with no factual evidence. 751 00:35:59,556 --> 00:36:01,487 In February, 2021, 752 00:36:01,591 --> 00:36:02,970 almost a year later, 753 00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:04,867 Davohnte Morgan is still missing, 754 00:36:04,970 --> 00:36:06,901 and we still don't have any hard leads. 755 00:36:07,005 --> 00:36:09,349 Once you are entered into the database, 756 00:36:09,453 --> 00:36:10,729 for Missing Persons, 757 00:36:10,832 --> 00:36:12,970 which is a nationwide database, 758 00:36:13,073 --> 00:36:15,591 anytime a body is located, 759 00:36:15,694 --> 00:36:17,832 that matches the descriptors, 760 00:36:17,936 --> 00:36:22,418 they will then put a hit out that, "Hey, this is a possible match." 761 00:36:22,522 --> 00:36:27,177 So, we now are looking for DNA from family, relatives, 762 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,073 so we can enter that into the DNA database 763 00:36:30,177 --> 00:36:32,142 to help us generate new leads. 764 00:36:33,315 --> 00:36:35,418 [Terri] So, it took me a while to do it. 765 00:36:35,522 --> 00:36:38,487 Because I was scared, I was nervous, I didn't want to. 766 00:36:38,591 --> 00:36:41,591 Because I thought maybe they might have found him dead. 767 00:36:42,832 --> 00:36:46,108 But I did have my DNA taken here. 768 00:36:48,660 --> 00:36:51,005 [Priddy] On September 17, 2021, 769 00:36:51,108 --> 00:36:52,487 we got a possible match. 770 00:36:52,591 --> 00:36:56,384 A male, matching the description of Davohnte Morgan, 771 00:36:56,487 --> 00:36:59,005 who was, unfortunately burned up in a fire. 772 00:36:59,108 --> 00:37:01,177 They were found in Jackson County, Oregon 773 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,280 which is approximately and hour, hour and a half away from us. 774 00:37:04,384 --> 00:37:06,211 And so, we took it as a very good lead. 775 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:07,763 Unfortunately, because he was burned, 776 00:37:07,867 --> 00:37:09,694 we had to go into dental records, 777 00:37:09,798 --> 00:37:12,384 and then, DNA. 778 00:37:12,487 --> 00:37:16,108 It was, at that point, eliminated that it was not Davohnte. 779 00:37:20,832 --> 00:37:24,832 It's frustrating that my nephew is still not here. 780 00:37:24,936 --> 00:37:28,246 [Anthony] The police never offered any helicopters, 781 00:37:28,349 --> 00:37:30,763 never a search party bigger than my family. 782 00:37:30,867 --> 00:37:32,487 And a few people in town, 783 00:37:32,591 --> 00:37:35,384 and they didn't even seem like they cared enough about my brother. 784 00:37:37,763 --> 00:37:39,142 [Priddy] To this day, almost three years 785 00:37:39,246 --> 00:37:41,142 after the initial investigation started, 786 00:37:41,246 --> 00:37:43,246 we still have the case open. 787 00:37:43,349 --> 00:37:45,660 We are still actively getting interest in the case. 788 00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:48,246 And we are still getting information. 789 00:37:48,349 --> 00:37:51,246 And we are following up on every lead that does come in. 790 00:37:51,349 --> 00:37:53,142 And I know that the family does feel 791 00:37:53,246 --> 00:37:55,108 that we are not doing enough 792 00:37:55,211 --> 00:37:57,315 but we are a very small department 793 00:37:57,418 --> 00:37:59,108 and this was a very, very big case, 794 00:37:59,211 --> 00:38:02,039 and a very big workload for our department 795 00:38:02,142 --> 00:38:03,970 and the few officers that we did have. 796 00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:05,798 And I do believe, throughout the community, 797 00:38:05,901 --> 00:38:07,315 my police department, 798 00:38:07,418 --> 00:38:10,211 Davohnte's family, we all want the same thing. 799 00:38:10,315 --> 00:38:12,349 We want to find Davohnte. 800 00:38:12,453 --> 00:38:13,936 In my ten years in law enforcement, 801 00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:15,384 with the Mount Shasta Police Department, 802 00:38:15,487 --> 00:38:16,970 this case does haunt me. 803 00:38:17,073 --> 00:38:19,453 Because this is not the type of community we live in. 804 00:38:19,556 --> 00:38:21,349 As the mayor, and as, more so, 805 00:38:21,453 --> 00:38:24,211 just a community member of Mount Shasta, 806 00:38:24,315 --> 00:38:27,522 we would really love him to be found. 807 00:38:27,625 --> 00:38:30,211 One of our community members is missing and we want him back. 808 00:38:37,349 --> 00:38:40,625 I don't think he's passed on because I don't feel that. 809 00:38:40,729 --> 00:38:43,211 And I believe my son is still out there 810 00:38:43,315 --> 00:38:44,798 and he-- he can't-- 811 00:38:44,901 --> 00:38:46,384 For whatever reason. 812 00:38:46,487 --> 00:38:47,487 He can't come home. 813 00:38:47,591 --> 00:38:48,694 He can't call us. 814 00:38:48,798 --> 00:38:49,660 He can't-- 815 00:38:49,763 --> 00:38:51,453 I don't know what the reason is, 816 00:38:51,556 --> 00:38:53,625 but whatever it is, 817 00:38:53,729 --> 00:38:55,108 I feel he is still there 818 00:38:55,211 --> 00:38:57,901 and he's waiting for my help. 819 00:38:58,005 --> 00:39:00,556 [Ruthie] We tried to get his girlfriend to help us, 820 00:39:00,660 --> 00:39:02,211 but she hasn't. 821 00:39:02,315 --> 00:39:06,039 I think his girlfriend was straight up the cause of him being missing. 822 00:39:06,142 --> 00:39:09,177 I believe that there's so much more 823 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,660 to her story. 824 00:39:11,763 --> 00:39:15,280 And I want, and I pray that, 825 00:39:15,384 --> 00:39:17,798 one day, that her conscience will eat her up 826 00:39:17,901 --> 00:39:19,832 so much to where she'll come forth. 827 00:39:23,108 --> 00:39:25,591 [Terri] There's not one second. 828 00:39:25,694 --> 00:39:27,625 Not one second 829 00:39:27,729 --> 00:39:30,349 that goes by that I don't think about him. 830 00:39:31,177 --> 00:39:32,867 [anthony] I just try to keep hope. 831 00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:34,246 And keep understanding. 832 00:39:34,349 --> 00:39:36,694 But holding onto this hope is also hard. 833 00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:38,625 Hard. 834 00:39:38,729 --> 00:39:40,453 And I missed you, Davohnte. 835 00:39:42,039 --> 00:39:44,522 [Terri] Yeah, I... 836 00:39:44,625 --> 00:39:48,039 Just wanna let him know how much I love him, you know how much 837 00:39:48,142 --> 00:39:51,246 him being gone has affected the whole family. 838 00:39:51,349 --> 00:39:53,625 And not just our family, our community. 839 00:39:56,005 --> 00:39:59,832 [Ruthie] Our family has not been the same since he's been missing. 840 00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:02,832 Since he's been gone. 841 00:40:02,936 --> 00:40:05,418 We can't do nothing, but, um... 842 00:40:05,522 --> 00:40:08,005 remember his smile, his laugh. 843 00:40:11,315 --> 00:40:13,660 His handsome face. 844 00:40:13,763 --> 00:40:15,867 Most beautiful eyes. 845 00:40:15,970 --> 00:40:20,142 And just... [sighs] a good person. 846 00:40:21,177 --> 00:40:23,005 He meant well. 847 00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:26,211 He... He walked with love. 848 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:27,936 [sobs] And purpose. 849 00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:32,729 I want answers. I wanna be able to close this up. 850 00:40:32,832 --> 00:40:36,763 Let that upset happen and be thankful that we know that happened. 851 00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:39,729 And move on, and try to find some peace 852 00:40:39,832 --> 00:40:41,901 in what has happened. 853 00:40:42,005 --> 00:40:44,108 Whatever that may be. 854 00:40:44,211 --> 00:40:47,453 [Anthony] Spread, spread, spread my brother's name. 855 00:40:47,556 --> 00:40:49,660 If you know anything, please let us know. 856 00:40:50,487 --> 00:40:52,349 [Terri] I'm just asking the public 857 00:40:52,453 --> 00:40:56,005 if you know anything, please contact us. 858 00:40:56,108 --> 00:41:01,729 Anybody that can help me bring my son back home. 859 00:41:20,142 --> 00:41:21,142 Kristen did not rum away. 860 00:41:21,246 --> 00:41:23,763 She was abducted and taken. 861 00:41:23,867 --> 00:41:26,005 Unless it's your own daughter nobody cares. 862 00:41:26,108 --> 00:41:29,729 This is where Kristen fell into this dark world 863 00:41:29,832 --> 00:41:31,694 of child sex slavery. 864 00:41:31,798 --> 00:41:35,591 Kristen was being sold for $10,000 per night. 865 00:41:35,694 --> 00:41:37,453 It's every parents worst nightmare.