Aveion Malik Lewis -- Found Deceased 1/27/10

The body of little Aveion Lewis has been found in a Virginia landfill.........

This is such sad news. I will never understand why people do these things.

Roanoke Police: Child’s body found in trash

WSLS News Staff
Published: January 27, 2010
Updated: January 27, 2010
By Megan Farley, in the field

At a news conference about the Aveion Lewis case, Roanoke Police said a small child’s body found by searchers in trash, but it has not been officially ruled as Aveion Lewis.

Investigators tell us the body was found around 12:30 p.m. today at the Smith Gap Landfill in Roanoke County. The body was found in trash collected near and around the Jamestown Apartments, where Aveion’s family lives.

The child’s body has been taken to the Roanoke Medical Examiner’s office to be positively identified.

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4:48 p.m.

Court records show Brandon Lockett, the step-father of Aveion Lewis, has been charged with murder.

The charge’s filing date is listed at January 25th (Monday), and the offense date is listed as January 14, 2010.

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3:41 p.m.

Roanoke City Police have called a news conference for 5 p.m. to discuss the Aveion Lewis case.

The police department is not allowing reporters to show the news conference live. WSLS will have a crew inside to bring you what is said.

Officers have been searching Smith Gap Landfill again today, following Tuesday’s restart of the search in Roanoke County. The landfill had identified trash brought in from Roanoke when Aveion Lewis disappeared, and had set it aside for investigators to search.

http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local/article/roanoke_police_to_discuss_aveion_lewis_case_at_5_p.m/77382/

Small boy's body found in Roanoke Co. landfill; Police haven't identified as Aveion Lewis

The Roanoke Times
UPDATED: 5:08 p.m. | POSTED: 3:44 p.m.
January 27, 2010

Roanoke police chief Joe Gaskins said today that searchers found the body of a small boy in the Smith Gap Regional Landfill in Western Roanoke County today at 12:30 p.m.

Police looking for missing Roanoke toddler Aveion Lewis had isolated trash originating from the 2100 block of King Charles Avenue in Roanoke, the 2-year-old lived with his mother and stepfather, Morgan and Brandon Lockett. Teams of searchers found the body in the isolated trash.

The medical examiner's office in Roanoke will identify the body and determine a cause of death. Police did not release details about the age or race of the child found. They also would not say how they believe the child died.

Brandon Lockett was charged last week with improper disposal of a human body, felony child neglect and obstruction of justice. No one has been charged with Aveion Lewis' death, but a search warrant indicates that police are investigating the death as a homicide.

UPDATED: 3:44 p.m.
Roanoke police have scheduled a 5 p.m. press conference today about their investigation into the death of Aveion Lewis.

Authorities spent Tuesday, which would have been the toddler's third birthday, searching for any sign of Lewis at a Roanoke County landfill.

Brandon Lockett, Aveion's stepfather, and Morgan Lockett, his mother, reported to police Jan. 14 that Aveion was abducted. Police said Brandon Lockett later told them that the toddler had died.

Brandon Lockett was charged with felony child neglect, improper disposal of a human body and obstruction of justice. Police haven't said how Aveion might have died, but a search warrant said they are investigating the toddler's death as a homicide.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/234529

This is very sad. I will never understand how people can murder children. My prayers go out to Aveion's family.

What a precious little boy...... how sad he had Brandon Lockett come into his life.....

This is just heartbreaking, to say the least. I'm aware of the feeding issues with babies such as Aveion. And I say damn his own mother to hell. Brandon Lockett, there's a special place in Hell for you as well. So many sick children fight for their lives everyday with these issues. Little Aveion, rest in peace sweet child. I'm so sorry you suffered at the hands of the ones that were supposed to protect and love you.

He was a precious little boy Snaz...

There was a beautiful light in his eyes....so full of love for life even after he had suffered from dehydration and malnurishment....how very sad....rest in Peace Baby.

Warrant says child's body wrapped, taped
Police seized duct tape and other items Friday from the home of Aveion Lewis' stepfather.

By Mike Gangloff
January 30, 2010



Remains found at a Roanoke County landfill are believed to be Aveion Lewis, but have not been identified.


When the body thought to be that of 2-year-old Aveion Lewis was found in a regional landfill, he was wrapped in packaging and tape, a search warrant filed in Roanoke Circuit Court on Friday said.

Reported missing from his Roanoke home on Jan. 14, the toddler was the subject of an intense search -- first for the kidnappers who his stepfather claimed had taken him, later for his remains after investigators determined the abduction story was false and that he had been killed.

Aveion's stepfather, Brandon Lockett, was charged last week with felony child neglect, obstruction of justice and improper disposal of a body.

Remains that are believed to be Aveion's were found Wednesday in the Smith Gap Regional Landfill in Roanoke County. Authorities had begun searching there after determining that garbage containers from around Aveion's home in the 2100 block of King Charles Avenue Southeast were emptied Jan. 14 and their contents taken to the city's trash transfer station, then moved by rail to Smith Gap.

In a search warrant filed Friday, police said searchers found a child's body "inside of packaging that was bound with an adhesive binding."

The warrant said police planned to search the home Aveion shared with Lockett and Aveion's mother, Morgan Lockett.

Morgan Lockett has not been charged in the case.

Specifically, police were seeking "all packaging items. All identification items, receipts, bar codes, and applications for membership. Any adhesive tape. All documents pertaining to Aveion Lewis."

The search warrant return, filed later Friday afternoon, said police collected 17 pieces of duct tape, plastic grocery store shopping bags and a mop. Officers took swabs from a training toilet, toddler bed and stains under the toddler bed and on a bedroom closet door. And officers seized a variety of paperwork, including immunization records on Aveion's siblings, and a prescription bottle for Aveion's medication that had been filled in 2008.

Though identification of the body found at the landfill has not been confirmed, Aveion's relatives scheduled a memorial service for Sunday at St. Matthew Word of Life Fellowship Church in Northwest Roanoke. The service is planned for 5 p.m. at 1422 Abbott St. N.W.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/234833

Does this story have the slightest ring of familiarity to anyone? Disgusting!!

This reminds me of Somer and Caylee's stories. It makes me sick.

Sickening, just sickening.......

i am glad that LE didn't wait so long to check the landfill - and wish that this would be standard operating procedure when a child goes missing. It worked in this case and in Somer Thompsons case - they were found relatively quickly, thus preserving crucial evidence. It reminds me of Haleigh Cummings, and even more recently Gabriel Johnson - who I believe were not searched for in the landfills at all, or soon enough...

Child's body identified as Aveion Lewis

The medical examiner's office confirmed Wednesday that the body found Jan. 27 in the Smith Gap Regional Landfill in Roanoke County was that of missing toddler Aveion Malik Lewis, police said.

The news officially ends the uncertainty that began Jan. 17 when Aveion was reported missing from his family's duplex in Southeast Roanoke.

His stepfather, Brandon Lockett, later told police that Aveion was dead before he reported that the toddler had been abducted. Lockett, 24, was charged with felony child neglect, improper disposal of a body and obstruction of justice.

Police have said that Lockett has given them varying accounts of what happened the night Aveion was reported missing. This week, they announced that they were investigating an e-mail account linked to Lockett to confirm who may have been involved in the toddler's death.

Aveion's family has scheduled a memorial service for 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Matthew Word of Life Fellowship Church at 1422 Abbott St. N.W. in Roanoke.

A funeral has not been scheduled pending the medical examiner's office release of Aveion's body, said Wendy Bishop of Valley Funeral Home and Cremation Services, which is handling arrangements.

-- Jorge Valencia

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/235394

Mother and stepfather of Aveion Lewis charged with murder

The mother and stepfather of a two-year-old Roanoke boy have now been charged with his murder.

Morgan and Brandon Lockett were indicted Monday by a grand jury.

Two-year-old Aveion Lewis dissappeared in January.

His body was found about two weeks later in a landfill.

Brandon Lockett has been in custody on child neglect and obstruction of justice charges.

Aveion's mother, Morgan turned herself in at the Roanoke Police Department Monday and was taken to the Roanoke City Jail.

They both face murder, child neglect and cruelty charges.

We'll have more on tonight on News-7 at Six.

http://www.wdbj7.com/global/story.asp?s=12064508

This poor little boy. Rest in Peace Aveion.

Another innocent, helpless child murdered. All of their lying and deceit at the beginning of his "disappearance" is sickening. A child's lifeless body neatly packaged, taped and thrown out like yesterday's trash. At least both of them are charged with murder.

Piper...Say your scenario isn't so....That is so sad...Thrown away like yesterday's garbage...They deserved to be locked up and the key thrown away....

Sadly so, Estee: (clipped from article above)

"In a search warrant filed Friday, police said searchers found a child's body "inside of packaging that was bound with an adhesive binding."