{"id":57480,"date":"2018-01-27T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=57480"},"modified":"2018-01-27T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T05:45:07","slug":"body-of-missing-virginia-16-year-old-girl-jholie-moussa-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/body-of-missing-virginia-16-year-old-girl-jholie-moussa-found.html","title":{"rendered":"Body of Missing Virginia 16-Year-Old Girl Jholie Moussa Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Body of Missing Virginia 16-Year-Old Girl Jholie Moussa Found<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

A body found Friday morning in a park in Fairfax County, Virginia, appears to be that of Jholie Moussa, the 16-year-old girl who went missing from her home in the county two weeks ago, officials say.<\/span><\/p>\n

The teenager’s death is being investigated as a homicide, police said Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple police departments and the FBI searched for Moussa, who was last seen leaving home under mysterious circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moussa left home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County on Friday, Jan. 12 after telling her twin sister she was going to a party in Norfolk, nearly 200 miles away, her sister told News4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her family reported her missing the next day, and the FBI joined the investigation four days later, on Jan. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n

The day Moussa disappeared, she seemed distracted after classes at Mount Vernon High School, her twin, Zhane Moussa, said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“She was doing my hair and then she stopped, for a good minute, to text some more. Then, out of nowhere, she was like, ‘I gotta go, I gotta go!'” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moussa told her sister she needed to go out for a minute.<\/span><\/p>\n

After she left, Zhane Moussa sent her a concerned text and got an odd response.<\/span><\/p>\n

“She texted me that she was going to Norfolk,” Zhane Moussa said. “And I’m, like, isn’t that more than 3 hours away?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that night, the girls’ mother, Syreeta Steward, missed a call from her daughter. Then, she heard nothing. It wasn’t like her.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Normally, she would have responded back to me. If she calls me and I don’t answer, she always follows it up with a text,” Steward said.<\/span><\/p>\n

They never heard from her again.<\/span><\/p>\n

The body that police believe is Moussa’s was found 14 days later in a wooded area of Woodlawn Park, less than a mile from where she was last seen in the 4200 block of Sonia Court. An officer found the body, almost entirely covered by leaves, about 11 a.m. Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The preliminary identification of Moussa’s body was based on her appearance, including a tattoo, police said. On her right shoulder, she had a tattoo of an infinity loop with her name and her twin’s name.<\/span><\/p>\n

A medical examiner will positively identify the body. Moussa’s family has been notified.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairfax County police had entered Moussa into the National Crime Information Center database as a runaway juvenile.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Based on the facts of the case, there is nothing that indicates that Moussa is in any danger,” county police previously said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

An FBI representative previously said there was not a specific reason why the agency joined the investigation; they had available resources to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police previously said detectives spoke to about 20 people who had recent contact with Moussa. Many of her friends were not fully cooperating with investigators, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the case was asked to call Fairfax County police at 703-691-2131, or the FBI at 202-278-2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Body-of-Missing-16-Year-Old-Virginia-Girl-Found-471351894.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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