The Jakarta Post, The Associated Press, Boston | Sat, 12/11/2010
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Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday it's likely that a North Carolina teen
whose mutilated body was found in a Boston suburb fell from the sky after
stowing away in an airplane wheel well.
Norfolk
District Attorney William Keating said police searched the area Friday in Milton
where the body of Delvonte Tisdale, 16, was found last month, and they found
sneakers and a shirt matching clothing Tisdale's family said he'd worn.
The items
were found along a path a Boston-bound plane would have taken while approaching
the city, he said.
Authorities
decided to go public with their evidence that Tisdale was a stowaway because
the apparent breach of airport security was such a serious public safety issue,
Keating said. He said he'd informed the Transportation Security Administration,
and expected them to thoroughly investigate.
"It's
a terrible tragedy what happened to this young man," Keating said.
"But if that was someone with a different motive, if that was a terrorist,
that could be a bomb planted on there undetected."
Tisdale's
body was found by a group of college students less than 24 hours after he was
last seen in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Tisdale was
a member of the Air Force ROTC program at North Mecklenburg High School near
Charlotte. His father, Anthony, said the family had moved from Greensboro to
Charlotte in the summer just so the teen could join that program. Anthony
Tisdale said his son was happy in Charlotte and stayed out of trouble.
But the
Delvonte Tisdale's brother, Anthony Tisdale Jr., said his brother was unhappy
in North Carolina and had never wanted to leave Baltimore, where he had lived
earlier.
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