The Jefferson City Police Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing person incident that occurred at 1306 West High Street this past Saturday.
The person missing is identified as Markell X. Beasley, a black, male, age 6, hgt 51 in, 52 lbs, black hair, brown eyes, last seen wearing an orange hat, grey and orange coat, blue shirt, and blue jeans .
A possible suspect in this case is Demitrius Beasley, a black, male, age 40, hgt 5’11, 200 lbs, with black hair and brown eyes.
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According to police reports, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Saturday, the victim’s mother, Michelle Gelling, allowed the victim, Markell to travel to St. Louis from Jefferson City with family members of Demitrius for a Christmas gathering.
The family members took Markell to St. Louis and then released him to the custody of Demitrius.
Although the child was partially raised by Gelling and Demitrius, the suspect has no legal rights to Markell and is not the biological father of the victim.
Demitrius and Gelling have exchanged a series of text messages and phone calls and during those calls, Demitrius made threats to Gelling that the child would not be returned to her and made threats to others trying to take the child from him.
Upon further investigation, there is no indication that there was a Christmas gathering in St. Louis and the intention was to give Markell to Demitrius.
Anyone seeing Markell or Demitrius or anyone having any information related to this case should call 911 to contact the nearest law enforcement agency or call the Jefferson City Police Department at 573-634-6351.
