It’s been nearly a year since 13-year-old Na’Ziyah Harris went missing in Detroit’s east side.
Dozens of searches have been conducted since then, but she has never been found. Her case almost went cold until later in the year when Jarvis Butts was arrested in connection to Na’Ziyah’s disappearance. Police began investigating her case as a homicide.
Piece by piece, police have been trying to understand what happened to Na’Ziyah and how Butts is connected to her murder.
Background
Prosecutors said Butts was supposed to turn himself in to authorities on a gun charge on Jan. 9, 2024, the day Na’Ziyah went missing, but that date was pushed back to February. Harris allegedly met up with Butts that day, and the two reportedly went to Ypsilanti before returning back to Detroit, where Butts checked into a motel…