The family of a Broadway dancer who’s been missing for nearly two weeks has hired a private investigator to assist in their desperate search to find him and bring him home.
Chandra Cleveland, the private investigator hired by the family to help locate Williams, said she believes his case is an example of “missing while Black syndrome,” where the disappearances of Black men and women receive little to no attention.
Williams’ mother saw him leave home just before 10 a.m. on October 3, according to an incident report from the sheriff’s department. Minutes later, Williams’ friends in New York received a concerning message from his iPhone, Corbett-Jacobs said.
“At 10:10, three of his friends received an SOS ping from his cell phone, which is not a lot of time after leaving the house,” Corbett-Jacobs said. Those friends reached out to Williams’ mother to share their concerns.
The sheriff’s department told CNN its deputies are investigating the potential of foul play and are “following up on all leads and all information” in the case.