Milton Murder Victim Identified As N.C. Teen
MILTON (CBS) – A badly mangled body found lying in the street of an upscale Milton neighborhood has been officially identified by Massachusetts authorities, ending the week long murder mystery.
Delvonte Tisdale, a 16-year-old ROTC student from Charlotte, North Carolina was reported missing on Monday. Late Sunday, Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating confirmed the body found in Milton was Tisdale.
Detectives were finally able to make the positive identification after matching fingerprints. Massachusetts detectives had traveled to Tisdale's home state of North Carolina this weekend to continue their investigation.
The official identification comes following confirmation from Delvonte Tisdale's father Friday afternoon to CBS television station WBTV that his son's body was found in Milton, Mass.
WBZ's Jim Smith reports
The key evidence in identifying the teen proved to be a note found in his pocket. The school hall pass had a name appearing to read 'Delonte Tisdale' scrawled on it. No student by that name lived in Milton or nearby Boston.
Tisdale was a high school sophomore at North Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte. He was last seen on Sunday night. A missing person report was filed Monday afternoon; his body was found late Monday night on Brierbrook Street, a secluded Milton neighborhood.
A vehicle witnessed near the Milton scene was recovered by police. The white Audi was registered in Illinois and had a Curry College sticker on it.
There have been no arrests, and no official cause of death has been released.
It is unclear how Tisdale ended up in Massachusetts.
