6-year-old Mississippi boy at center of Amber Alert found dead

JACKSON, Miss. — A 6-year-old who was the center of an Amber Alert based out of Jackson, Mississippi, was found shot dead Thursday.

The child was inside a Toyota Camry that stolen from a Kroger parking lot in Jackson around 1:15 a.m., according to the Jackson Police Department. The vehicle was last seen traveling northbound on I-55, but it was recovered just before 11 a.m. in Madison County, Miss.

Police said Kingston Frazier was found in the back of that vehicle with “at least one” gunshot wound.

An unoccupied Honda Civic was also recovered by police. Police said the vehicle was used to drop off the suspect who stole the Camry with Frazier inside.

Police said a multi-jurisdictional investigation is underway. The Jackson Police Department, Hinds County Sheriff’s Office, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Highway Patrol and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office are working collectively on the case.

Eighteen-year-old Dwan Wakefield was taken into custody in connection to the crime, according to media outlets in Jackson.  Investigators are searching for DeAllen Washington, who is referred to as a person of interest.

According to the Clarion Ledger, Wakefield was the former starting quarterback at a high school in the area. A possible connection or motive has not been discussed by police yet.

The family of the 6-year-old said that pure evil led to the death of Kingston.

"Everyone that was praying for us, that we would find Kingston alive, we want to thank everybody for that, but this is, really, this is, it's hard to know that people out there are evil, that would kill a child," Kingston's great aunt, Velma Eddington, told the Clarion Ledger. "That's evil. That baby hadn't done anything to him. That baby hadn't done nothing. They could have left that child on that backseat, asleep. They didn't have to kill him. Those people are evil. Evil. They need to find that other one before we find him…it's evil what they did."

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