Three days after the body of 18-year-old Jaheil Westby was recovered in the Port Loyola area, law enforcement authorities have released a new public update on the ongoing homicide investigation. Confirming that Westby died from multiple gunshot wounds, officials confirmed that the intensive, wide-ranging probe into his killing remains active as of Monday evening, with no suspects taken into custody to date. Investigators are once again issuing a public appeal for community cooperation, urging any resident with even minor details related to the case to come forward to help law enforcement piece together the full sequence of events that led to the teen’s death.
In an official statement provided to reporters, Assistant Superintendent of Police Stacy Smith, Staff Officer for the department, walked through the timeline of the investigation that launched earlier this week. “The probe opened on Friday, April 10, at approximately 6:45 a.m., when a relative of Westby arrived at a police booth on Central American Boulevard to report the teen missing,” Smith explained. “The relative told officers that Westby had not returned home overnight, and that the last confirmed sighting of him was around 3:00 p.m. the previous Thursday. She added that Westby was with a friend identified as Alwin Marin at the time, and that the pair had planned to travel to the Dyke area to hunt iguanas.”
Following the missing person report, officers immediately dispatched a search team to comb the Dyke area for the teen. Slightly more than an hour after the search began, just after 8:00 a.m. Friday, searchers located Westby’s unresponsive body, with visible apparent gunshot wounds on his remains. Smith confirmed that alongside the homicide probe into Westby’s killing, investigators are also continuing to look into the unexplained disappearance of Marin, who has not been seen since the pair went hunting Thursday afternoon.
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