DETROIT (WWJ) — A man has been charged with first degree, premeditated murder in the case of a Detroit teen who disappeared after getting off a school bus early this year.
At a news conference Thursday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced that 41-year-old Jarvis Ramon Butts AKA Jaris Ramon Butts of Detroit is charged with the murder of 13-year old Na’Ziyah Harris, as well as the sexual assaults of two other underage girls.
“The evidence in this case will clearly show that the defendant’s alleged actions were beyond predatory. They were vulturous – he groomed and preyed upon Na’Ziyah with expertise. We will prove that he killed young Na’Ziyah after he found out she was pregnant at 13 with his child,” Worthy said.
Harris was last seen getting off a school bus last January in the area of Cornwall and Three Mile Drive, on Detroit’s east side.
In the months since her disappearance, there have been searches for Harris in Clinton Township, Ann Arbor and the Rouge River on Detroit’s west side, but the teen’s body has not been found.