On September 17, 2024, Jayvon Maurice Givan was found hanging by a metal chain from a commercial building in Corrales, New Mexico. He was 29 years old. The Albuquerque Police Department ruled his death a suicide and cremated his body before his family even knew he was dead.
For 384 days, no one told his family what happened.
It wasn’t until October 1, 2025—over a year after Jayvon’s death—that his cousin Jada Walker from Kansas City filed a missing persons report in Albuquerque and discovered the police had been sitting on his case file the entire time. Virtually no investigation. No autopsy to the family’s knowledge. No notification. Just a two-page incident report classifying a Black man found hanged in public as “suicide” and a body turned to ash before anyone who loved him could say goodbye…