ORANGE PARK, Fla. – For more than a decade, the ashes of a 9-year-old boy have been sitting on a shelf in a stranger’s garage, waiting to be returned to his family.
The remains belong to Justin Khalief Davis, who was born in 2002 and died in April 2012, according to information engraved on a memorial chest found inside an abandoned storage unit off Blanding Boulevard.
The unit was purchased at auction by David Purdom, who says he discovered the chest years ago while buying abandoned storage units in Orange Park — a business he said he was in long before it became popularized by reality television…