Family says missing teen found dismembered and set on fire in Barbour County
The family of 18-year-old Markavious Rumph says their desperate search for the missing teen ended in horror when his parents found his body in a wooded area in Barbour County.
His family says Markavious was last seen May 7 after leaving with a friend. When he did not return to his grandmother’s home in Eufaula, they reported him missing and began searching on their own after hearing troubling information from the community.
The family says Markavious had been shot, dismembered, and set on fire. Investigators have not released an official cause of death.
“I looked for five days for my son, with no help from the Eufaula Police Department,” his mother, Yolanda Wynn, said through tears. “Me and my family in the rain on Mother’s Day, I walked through those woods.”
Now, she wants justice.
“But they gotta pay. I want everybody that’s involved to pay for my son. Everybody.”
Markavious’s father, Marcus Rumph, says the pain is impossible to put into words.
“They basically burned my baby, shot my baby, burned him up and chopped him up,” Rumph said. “I’m dealing with it the best I can right now.”
The family says they believe people known to Markavious may be responsible, but WRBL is not naming anyone because police have not publicly identified suspects or persons of interest.