ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — One Rochester family is navigating an emotional journey after learning their sister, whom officials declared dead in February of 2024, is actually alive and living out of state.
Shanita Hopkins reached out to News 8 with a very unusual situation. Her family filed a missing person’s report for her sister, Shanice Crews, in July of 2021. They were concerned because she left two children behind and cut off all communication.
In April of 2024, police informed the family their sister had died back in February in an empty lot off of Hudson Ave. near Nash Street. The cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was a drug overdose with extremely high levels of cocaine in the body. Despite being missing for three years at this point, Shanita says that’s just not something her sister had been involved with…