Where is Devon Lopez? His Mother Goes 1-on-1 with News Five

Devon Lopez

There is another report of a missing person whose family is desperately looking for. It’s been nine days since Darlene Whitfield says she has seen her son, Devon Lopez and like Anisha Young’s family, Whitfield believes that her son is dead. Today, she broke her silence on the disappearance of her son. The twenty-two-year-old was at their home on Vernon Leslie Street in the Belama Phase Three area on December first and then visited with his girlfriend. On December second, he reportedly received a call and got into a vehicle sometime in the afternoon and since then he has not been located. While the mother has received reports that Lopez was spotted the day he went missing, she confirmed that police have reviewed phone records which show that Lopez was alive up to the night of December third when he was engaged in a lengthy telephone conversation. Whitfield said she sensed something wrong, and that foreboding feeling was confirmed when Lopez didn’t check in at the police station on December sixth.

Darlene Whitfield

Darlene Whitfield, Mother of Devon Lopez

“Friday evening after six, the girlfriend of his; she came to me and tell me that Devon neva gone sign in on Friday which was off to me cause he usually go sign in every Friday. So I couldn’t sleep so the Saturday morning I got up early and came to the police station and asked them if he did came cause that is not his thing. They said that he did not come, so I made an official report to the CIB and that is where I am now. Right now I am clueless to whatever is happening; I am very clueless as a mother. Sad to say the last time I saw him was Sunday night at about 9:30-10:00 di night. He was sitting on his car with two of his friends; they usual come and hail him. I saw him there and I was getting ready to go to bed and that was it. I got up Monday, but I neva thought anything about it because I usually ker my kids to school. I noh see ahn Tuesday; I noh see ahn Wednesday so iu say well ih mussi deh dah the girlfriend cause dah between me and the girlfriend ih stay. So I said, well maybe dah deh ih deh. So when she came to me Friday night, I was stunned cause my son—noh kay weh he deh—if the police dehn have he, he tell them, “Big man I have to go sign in; Miss I have to go sign in.” Noh kay weh he deh, he wah make yo know, Friday I have to go sign in. And that’s what made me aware that he mi missing cause usually he go wah two days, but he come right back. But this dah more than two or three days. This is what the girlfriend’s sister is telling me. I don’t know. This is what the girlfriend’s sister is saying, which would be his sister-in-law. She told me that he got an unknown call and he left and say ih di come back.”

Duane Moody

“This was when?”

Darlene Whitfield

“She di claim that this dah Monday; she di claim this dah Monday in the afternoon. But people are telling me that they even saw him Monday evening, so I am very puzzled about what is happening.”