After Remains of Missing Boy Are Found Inside Buffalo Home, Focus Shifts to How He Died

After Remains of Missing Boy Are Found Inside Buffalo Home, Focus Shifts to How He Died
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BUFFALO, N.Y.—The remains of a 12-year-old boy who went missing in 2020 have been found inside a Buffalo house, and the death is being investigated as a homicide, police said Monday.

Jaylen Griffin was last seen on Aug. 4, 2020, when he left his East Buffalo home for a nearby convenience store at about 11 a.m. His body was found Friday in a house about 5 miles away (8 kilometers), in South Buffalo.