NY ALFA BARRIE & GARRETT WARREN: Missing from Harlem, NY - 12 May 2023 - Age 11 & 13 *Found Deceased*

NYC boys, 11 and 13, may have disappeared together: police

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misstated how the two missing boys know each other. The story has been updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) – The older sister of 11-year-old Alfa Ousmane…

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NYC boys, 11 and 13, may have disappeared together: police​

he older sister of 11-year-old Alfa Ousmane Barrie was tearful on the phone Tuesday morning, desperate for information after her little brother didn’t come home from his Harlem charter school on Friday.

“This was the first time this ever happened,” Fatima Diallo said about her brother, who is the youngest of six children.

Diallo and police believe Barrie may be with a friend, 13-year-old Garrett (Man Man) Warren, who’s also been missing for days. Barrie lives in the Bronx and Warren lives in Upper Manhattan, according to police.


The two boys were observed on surveillance video leaving one of their homes and then walking together at 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem around 6 p.m. Friday, according to the NYPD.

“We are trying to identify everybody who was with them,” said Brian Gill, deputy chief at Detective Borough Manhattan North. “We need to speak to every single person who was with them … We want to talk to their classmates. We’ve been in contact with their schools.”

The Harlem location was the last place Barrie was seen. Warren was last seen in front of his home on Saturday around 1:30 a.m., according to an NYPD missing persons report.


“There are millions of eyes and ears in our city, and we are asking all of them right now to help us find these children,” said Ruel Stephenson, assistant chief at Patrol Borough Manhattan North.


Media - ALFA BARRIE & GARRETT WARREN: Missing from Harlem, NY - 12 May 2023 - Age 11 & 13

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Medical Examiner Says Missing Boy Found Dead in Harlem River Died From Accidental Drowning

Alfa Barrie, 11, and Garrett Warren, 13, had been missing for a week. Warren's body was found Thursday; Barrie's on Saturday.

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Medical Examiner Says Missing Boy Found Dead in Harlem River Died From Accidental Drowning​

One of two boys pulled from New York rivers this week after they went missing died of an accidental drowning, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The medical examiner made the determination of accidental drowning for Warren and has not yet examined Barrie’s body, WPIX reported. That will come on Sunday, the station said.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Medical Examiner Says Missing Boy Found Dead in Harlem River Died From Accidental Drowning

Alfa Barrie, 11, and Garrett Warren, 13, had been missing for a week. Warren's body was found Thursday; Barrie's on Saturday.

www.crimeonline.com

Medical Examiner Says Missing Boy Found Dead in Harlem River Died From Accidental Drowning​

One of two boys pulled from New York rivers this week after they went missing died of an accidental drowning, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The medical examiner made the determination of accidental drowning for Warren and has not yet examined Barrie’s body, WPIX reported. That will come on Sunday, the station said.

How can they say such is accidental ever unless they have footprints and only "his" leading to the water. Someone saw two boys in the water? What??? And what time of day was that? I am absolutely not saying it couldn't be the case as it LIKELY is but there is a LOT here that has not been explained, such as how they came to this determination with the one boy. How does one EVER know a water death is accidental unless they can be assured only they were there by video or other and I mean THERE, going in.

Way too little info thus far.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Body that surfaced off Manhattan identified as missing boy

Cops were called to Riverside Drive and W. 102nd St. around 6:30 a.m. after the body was found floating in the water. First responders brought the body to shore.

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By Rebecca White, Janon Fisher and Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
May 20, 2023 at 10:47 am

A desperate search for two Harlem friends who vanished last week ended on a tragic note Saturday — leaving their heartbroken families with more questions than answers.

<snip>

On Saturday, relatives still didn’t know just how the two boys ended up in the water. Nor do they know how a gaping hole in a fence along the East River shoreline was left unaddressed, allowing the kids to slip to the water’s edge

“It took six days and eight days to find them,” Garrett’s mother Dayshell Morre said bitterly as she spoke to the Daily News on Saturday, just hours after Alfa’s remains were covered. “We just want to know what happened to these kids. How did they get in the water?

“We want to know why it took so long for the NYPD to find two black boys,” she said.

<snip>

Alfa’s relatives last saw him at their Bronx home on E. 167th St. around 4 p.m. on May 12. An investigation revealed that the two friends bought a large amount of fish at a Harlem fish shop —although it’s not clear why — with a group of other boys later that afternoon before heading toward the East River, police said.

Later, the two friends and a third teen were caught on video slipping through a hole in a fence, giving them access to the East River, a source with knowledge of the case said.

There’s a 10-foot drop to the shoreline just past the fence, so it was not clear how they ended up in the water.

At around 9 p.m., someone called 911, reporting two boys in the water near the Madison Ave. Bridge, where Garrett’s body was recovered.

“They never even looked in the water,” Morre said of the NYPD. “They had a 911 call and they never looked for these boys.”

The East River was at high tide on the afternoon of May 12, according to an online tide calendar. The tide was going out about 9:15 p.m., around the time the 911 call was made.

An NYPD Harbor Unit, scuba unit and Emergency Services Unit responded to the area within six minutes of the 911 call and scoured the water and the shoreline, but found nothing, a department spokesman said.

Cops tried to contact the 911 caller repeatedly during the search, but never got through to the tipster, an NYPD official said, noting that Alfa and Garrett weren’t reported missing for another two days.

Alfa’s Bronx family reported him missing Sunday morning. Garrett’s parents reported their son missing the next day at about 3 p.m.

<snip>

Relatives said cops identified two children who were with Alfa and Garrett, but haven’t charged them. The NYPD could not immediately confirm this, citing the ongoing investigation.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well I am not surprised others were along, etc. Didn't think it was that easy of an explanation by a long shot of two just went near the water, one fell in, etc. and the other drowned trying to save him. It just didn't make sense Apparently there was some kind of plan and get together that day or something with others, etc...

I am sure the mother is grieving but am not sure she is being fair to LE in her criticism although understandable with grief. They DID find both boys.

 

[Guess Who]

Well I am not surprised others were along, etc. Didn't think it was that easy of an explanation by a long shot of two just went near the water, one fell in, etc. and the other drowned trying to save him. It just didn't make sense Apparently there was some kind of plan and get together that day or something with others, etc...

I am sure the mother is grieving but am not sure she is being fair to LE in her criticism although understandable with grief. They DID find both boys.

What I don't get is not reported missing for two days, but the boys easily could have told parents they were staying at each other's homes overnight

 

[GrandmaBear]

What I don't get is not reported missing for two days, but the boys easily could have told parents they were staying at each other's homes overnight

I don't know about that as it said in some link or above that the one hadn't been seen since leaving school I think, something on that order, no mention of staying with the other boy. I think it came from the parents, I'd have to look back.

The late report doesn't make sense though unless one or both kids were known to have not come home before without it being anything tragic, or to have run away or some such--otherwise yeah I'd think you'd be worried and calling 911 long before they did. This is also assuming either set of parents kept track of their kids. Did I read it wrong about the one being at a party til what time and then heading back out in the middle of the night to play basketball...?

I'm not saying they aren't the best of parents, they may well be. I'm saying we don't know that.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

New Timeline, 911 Call Details Emerge in Missing NYC Boys' Baffling River Deaths

Top NYPD officials provided more details Wednesday on their investigation into the case of two New York City boys who vanished together one Friday afternoon this month, then turned up dead in different rivers days later — and days apart. The baffling May 12 disappearances of 11-year-old Alfa...

www.nbcnewyork.com

New Timeline, 911 Call Details Emerge in Missing NYC Boys' Baffling River Deaths​

Top NYPD officials provided more details Wednesday on their investigation into the case of two New York City boys who vanished together one Friday afternoon this month, then turned up dead in different rivers days later -- and days apart.

The baffling May 12 disappearances of 11-year-old Alfa Barrie, of the Bronx, and 13-year-old Garrett Warren, of Harlem, rocked their communities and their families, who said they weren't even aware the two knew each other.

The boys didn't go to the same school. They didn't live in the same borough. And relatives said the vanishing act was entirely out of character for both of them. NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig sought to fill in the timeline gaps Wednesday, delivering a detailed picture of the hours before and after the two went missing that Friday night.

He also emphasized the investigation was "active and ongoing," saying the NYPD was working with the Manhattan district attorney's office, the chief medical examiner's office and others to determine whether criminality was involved or the boys' deaths were just tragedies.

"We want to find out exactly what occurred on that river," Essig said, referring to the Harlem River, where Warren's body was found and where the boys had last been traced the night they disappeared. "We owe it to the families for closure. And we owe it to the public as well."

According to Essig, the boys first got together around 3:30 p.m. May 12 and were tracked to a number of places across Manhattan, including a fish market, a house and a deli. At 6:43 p.m., Essig said Warren and Barrie are seen on a Citi Bike together near West 143rd Street and Lenox, and they are joined by a third youth. All three ride east.

Between 6:43 p.m. and 6:50 p.m., the three went over a pedestrian footbridge. Two people were seen climbing over a fence and going into the water, Essig said, though he emphasized the video was taken from a distance. Fourteen minutes pass before any of the three boys is seen on video again, and they see only the third youth at 7:04 p.m.

Police say the third youth went into Colonel Young Park at 7:04 p.m. and is seen exiting it exactly two hours later, at 9:04 p.m. Five minutes after that, an anonymous 911 call comes in reporting two kids had been pushing each other on the river's edge in the area and both of them fell into the water. The dispatcher tried to engage the caller for more information. By the time cops arrived at the scene, the youth wasn't there -- and they couldn't track down the 911 caller.

Harbor and aviation units did a canvas of the immediate vicinity that night, Essig said, in the shallow part of the river and along the coast. Later that evening, detectives managed to identify and question the third youth. They located and interviewed a number of kids who had been in the park that night over the following days.

None said they saw what happened at the river's edge, Essig says. It was a crowded Friday night at the park, too.

"We know kids take video, post video, exchange video on social media -- if anyone has seen any video or heard of any video please contact us," Essig pleaded. "You are not in trouble for coming forward in a timely manner."

 

[GrandmaBear]

New Timeline, 911 Call Details Emerge in Missing NYC Boys' Baffling River Deaths

Top NYPD officials provided more details Wednesday on their investigation into the case of two New York City boys who vanished together one Friday afternoon this month, then turned up dead in different rivers days later — and days apart. The baffling May 12 disappearances of 11-year-old Alfa...

www.nbcnewyork.com

New Timeline, 911 Call Details Emerge in Missing NYC Boys' Baffling River Deaths​

Top NYPD officials provided more details Wednesday on their investigation into the case of two New York City boys who vanished together one Friday afternoon this month, then turned up dead in different rivers days later -- and days apart.

The baffling May 12 disappearances of 11-year-old Alfa Barrie, of the Bronx, and 13-year-old Garrett Warren, of Harlem, rocked their communities and their families, who said they weren't even aware the two knew each other.

The boys didn't go to the same school. They didn't live in the same borough. And relatives said the vanishing act was entirely out of character for both of them. NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig sought to fill in the timeline gaps Wednesday, delivering a detailed picture of the hours before and after the two went missing that Friday night.

He also emphasized the investigation was "active and ongoing," saying the NYPD was working with the Manhattan district attorney's office, the chief medical examiner's office and others to determine whether criminality was involved or the boys' deaths were just tragedies.

"We want to find out exactly what occurred on that river," Essig said, referring to the Harlem River, where Warren's body was found and where the boys had last been traced the night they disappeared. "We owe it to the families for closure. And we owe it to the public as well."

According to Essig, the boys first got together around 3:30 p.m. May 12 and were tracked to a number of places across Manhattan, including a fish market, a house and a deli. At 6:43 p.m., Essig said Warren and Barrie are seen on a Citi Bike together near West 143rd Street and Lenox, and they are joined by a third youth. All three ride east.

Between 6:43 p.m. and 6:50 p.m., the three went over a pedestrian footbridge. Two people were seen climbing over a fence and going into the water, Essig said, though he emphasized the video was taken from a distance. Fourteen minutes pass before any of the three boys is seen on video again, and they see only the third youth at 7:04 p.m.

Police say the third youth went into Colonel Young Park at 7:04 p.m. and is seen exiting it exactly two hours later, at 9:04 p.m. Five minutes after that, an anonymous 911 call comes in reporting two kids had been pushing each other on the river's edge in the area and both of them fell into the water. The dispatcher tried to engage the caller for more information. By the time cops arrived at the scene, the youth wasn't there -- and they couldn't track down the 911 caller.

Harbor and aviation units did a canvas of the immediate vicinity that night, Essig said, in the shallow part of the river and along the coast. Later that evening, detectives managed to identify and question the third youth. They located and interviewed a number of kids who had been in the park that night over the following days.

None said they saw what happened at the river's edge, Essig says. It was a crowded Friday night at the park, too.

"We know kids take video, post video, exchange video on social media -- if anyone has seen any video or heard of any video please contact us," Essig pleaded. "You are not in trouble for coming forward in a timely manner."

Sounds pretty fishy to me but then it did from the start.

Third boy is trouble. And very well may have been the caller.

Interesting the families never knew the two boys knew each other... IF they truly did before that day, may well involve some online thing, just guessing...

Busy par but NO others saw anything at the water's edge. Yeah right...

I never realized they were found in two DIFFERENT rivers.

Pushing each other.... IF true sounds like some setup of the two...

I thought gang and while maybe not the traditional type of gang I think we have something close to that of who got them there at least if not even telling the two they had to do this to joint the "club"... TOTAL guesses on my part...

I don't know but I never thought it likely it was just the two of them or one went in to save the other... Not sounding like that was the case at all.

As for as the family's criticism of LE sounds like they found this third kid same day it was called in.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Mom defends teen son in Harlem River drowning deaths

Mother says her teen plagued with flashbacks in deaths of two youths in the Harlem River

www.nydailynews.com

By Kerry Burke and Larry McShane
New York Daily News
May 27, 2023 at 2:38 pm

The mother of a teen who watched helplessly as two youths fell in the Harlem River said her child was still plagued by flashbacks and ugly rumors two weeks after the tragedy.

“He still has visions, he’s still seeing it,” mom Leslie Rispers told The Daily News on Saturday. “If he goes to school, if he goes to the store, walks down the street, people are asking him questions. I’m setting him up for therapy.”


The other boys, Garrett Warren, 13, and Alfa Barrie, 11, ultimately drown in the river.

Her 14-year-old son first asked a stranger to call 911 after the boys went into the water, and then ran to a nearby barbecue to ask a woman to do the same in his desperate effort to summon aid, she said.

“My son did the right thing,” said Rispers. “He ran away and got help ... He feels sad because he wishes he could have done more. But I’m telling him that he did the right thing.”

Rispers spoke with the News after Garrett’s mom challenged the account of what happened in the May 12 incident described by the NYPD as horseplay gone lethally wrong.

Dayshell Moore, in an earlier interview with the News, said she heard there was a fight before the boys went into the river — prompting the mom to start her own investigation.

Attorney Ezra Glaser, representing the family of second victim Alfa Barrie, intends to file a notice of claim on their behalf for legal action against the city in his death.

“I don’t know what ‘horseplay’ was involved, but these two kids are dead due to the disrepair of the park,” he told the News.

Rispers said her son became the target of unfounded rumors about his role in the aftermath of the tragedy, even as he struggled with what happened — and twice spoke with police about the deaths.

“Basically, they’re irrational in their grief,” she said of those laying the blame on her boy. “They all grew up together and he feels they are turning on him.”

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Heartbroken mom of drowned NYC boy says the story is more sinister than NYPD’s ‘skipping stones’ version

Story by Rocco Parascandola, Kerry Burke, Janon Fisher, New York Daily News • Yesterday 5:41 PM

The distraught mother of one of two boys who died after falling into the Harlem River May 12 is challenging the unfolding story about the tragedy and believes the NYPD needs to look harder at the other boys who were down by the river that day.

Accounts vary of the events that led to the deaths of 13-year-old Garrett Warren and Alfa Barrie, 11.

The NYPD says the two boys went down to the river to skip stones and were engaged in horseplay when they fell in. Some media reports have the much larger Garrett pushing Alfa in, though there’s been no indication of any malicious intent.

But Garrett’s mom, Dayshell Moore, told the Daily News she suspects something more sinister may have been going on.

“Boys from Harlem don’t skip rocks,” she said.

Moore said she has spoken with another teenage boy who was with Garrett and Alfa, along with others in the neighborhood. Based on those conversations, she believes the skipping rocks and horseplay story is just that — a story — and actually there was fighting going on.

She is calling on the NYPD to step up their investigations and make arrests. Moore said that police have not responded to her calls so she has taken it on herself to investigate what actually happened.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Not one bit surprised and I don't believe the "stories". This one "stunk" from the start.

Whether the truth or a glossed over story comes out or results is anyone's guess.

This was no relaxed fun day out planned with friends.