Oklahoma teen Noah Presgrove’s household share their heartbreak a yr to the day after he was mysteriously discovered lifeless and subject a chilling warning to his killer

Heartbroken family members of an adolescent mysteriously discovered on a lonely freeway have opened up on the ache of dropping him, on the primary anniversary of his demise.

Noah Presgrove, 19, was sporting solely footwear when his physique was found on a desolate stretch of US-81 close to Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4, 2023.

He was final seen alive a couple of mile away at a four-day twenty second party with pals over the Labor Day weekend that was closely documented on social media.

Presgrove suffered large head and upper-body accidents that led him to die from inside bleeding, however the reason for these accidents stays a thriller. 

His aunt Ashley Chadwick mentioned the household determined to not have any form of ceremony or gathering and would mourn individually.

‘It may be very arduous, it’ll be very emotional, I imply it has been a yr and I really feel that now we have given greater than sufficient time for issues to return about and be achieved,’ she mentioned in a video this week.

‘For the yr going ahead, issues are going to for positive be so much stronger, so much tougher on placing strain and pushing, so we’ll see what occurs.

‘It is come a great distance because it first occurred and we’re very grateful for individuals who have been standing behind us and the help and prayers.’

Presgrove’s sister Madison Rawlings mentioned the household was exhausted by the gradual tempo of the police investigation and nonetheless not figuring out how he died a yr later.

She mentioned on-line earlier this week that each one she may hope was that his final moments weren’t painful, and he wasn’t killed by somebody he cherished.

Any sympathy she might have had for whoever killed her brother was lengthy gone, whether or not they have been attempting to get away with it or simply scared.

‘If now we have to catch you… our household has labored this difficult to search out you, think about them pushing to get them the punishment they deserve,’ she mentioned.

Shut household buddy Kristen Smith wrote a letter to Presgrove, desperately hoping to someday learn the way he died.

‘Noah, an entire yr with out you one year of what ifs, nonetheless attempting to wrap our thoughts round who did this to you and why,’ she wrote.

Smith anticipated he can be in primary coaching for the US Marines, as he was ready a yr to enlist along with his cousin, as an alternative of within the native cemetery.

‘Questioning the place you would be and what you would be doing with all of your expertise. Questioning should you’d be achieved with primary and the place you would be stationed,’ she continued.

‘We’re all nonetheless mourning with no reply to who, what, the place, and why! I do know you see our struggle and I do know you understand how arduous your loved ones is preventing for solutions and justice!

‘Not a day goes by that we’re not pondering of you, truly your complete world. Noah we miss you kiddo! At this time we proceed to wish and search solutions simply as we’ve achieved and can proceed to do! A yr is just too lengthy with out you! 

‘I hope everybody could make the world just a bit brighter at this time and love such as you did, do one thing form for somebody in your reminiscence.’

The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, which is main the investigation, has launched nearly no details about the case over the previous yr.

The final replace was 4 months in the past when it mentioned Presgrove’s demise was not being investigated as a homicide – which didn’t explicitly rule out manslaughter. 

What we all know up to now

Presgrove’s cadre of shut friends nonetheless raging properly into that Sunday night time constantly claimed they’d no thought how he died, in the event that they have been even awake when he did.

However leaked texts and unearthed social media feedback present chaotic and continually shifting competing narratives which have fueled sinister rumors and turned the little city on the Texas border right into a tinderbox. 

The tough collection of occasions that emerges is that after two nights or notably heavy partying, Presgrove and several other others took an ATV for a drunken spin and flipped it.

Nobody was damage, however he was soiled sufficient that two of his pals gave him a bathe and he turned into a distinct pair of shorts, and argued with the birthday lady about whether or not he may sleep in her mattress.

After being informed no, he wandered off to clear his head and wasn’t seen once more till a passing motorist noticed his physique and known as 911 at 5.53am.

However the particulars are very a lot in debate – as is whether or not Presgrove was killed the place he was discovered and even left the social gathering alive.

The misplaced weekend

The social gathering was to have fun the twenty second birthday of Avery Jo Combs, whose household are big landowners within the space round Terral and past.

Marketed to pals on Snapchat, it was held at her home – one in every of three on small a mud street off the freeway 1.2 miles north of city and surrounded by fields.

The group lived within the numerous small cities dotted alongside US-81, together with Ryan, Waurika, Duncan, and Comanche – the place Presgrove lived.

About 40 folks confirmed up, coming and going over the course of the weekend, and movies of the growing of the more and more drunk antics popped up on-line.

These movies, watched by many locals as they have been posted, grew to become the one document of the final hours of Presgrove’s life.

One of the essential was from the Saturday night time displaying a few of Presgrove’s pals, together with Avery, writing their names on his naked buttocks with marker.

Sooner or later that the night time, Presgrove acquired into an argument along with his greatest buddy Jack Newton after the latter did not like that he was huddled in a nook speaking to his girlfriend Carter Combs – Avery’s sister.

‘We argued about women for a second then ended up holding one another crying telling one another how a lot we meant to at least one one other,’ Jack informed a buddy within the weeks after Presgrove’s demise.

Presgrove drove dwelling late that night time and showered, nevertheless it was not clear how a lot of the cussed marker he was capable of get off within the bathe.

Sunday night time, recognized in movies by the black shorts he was sporting, concerned extra drunken hijinks, together with Presgrove daring pals to slap him throughout the face as they partied beneath an outdoor patio on the home.

Presgrove needed to repeatedly insist {that a} male buddy named Bryan Sweat hit him, ultimately solely giving him a lightweight faucet earlier than sprinting away in worry of retaliation. 

About the identical time, a regarding video appeared to point out an adolescent holding a rifle with Presgrove seen within the foreground.

Presgrove fought at one other level within the night time after one other buddy, Mikey, accused him of hiding his telephone. 

Presgrove’s household claimed Mikey ‘fishhooked’ him, and had his finger bitten in retaliation – however some pals insisted the argument was by no means bodily. 

The telephone was discovered beneath one other buddy who was sleeping on a sofa, and the 2 boys made up.

The slap video was posted at 1.42am, in line with those that watched it in actual time, and was the final identified publish for about two hours.

The ATV accident 

The story of the ATV accident is so universally agreed upon that it made it into the post-mortem report, together with Presgrove popping out of it unscathed.

‘Earlier that night time he [was riding in an ATV] and he flipped it however then after that he was simply hanging out on the home,’ Stephanie Milan, one of many women who was there, wrote in a Snapchat message to an inquiring native.

‘Like he turned it on its aspect however they flipped it again on its wheels.’

However the particulars, and what occurred afterwards, range wildly relying on who you speak to – some saying it occurred about midnight and others at 3am.

Jack, who owned the Polaris Ranger side-by-side, mentioned it needed to have occurred after he went to mattress about 1.50am.

‘I took my keys out of the SxS and apparently Noah got here in my room and grabbed them whereas I used to be asleep. A bunch of individuals went and drove the Ranger and wrecked it,’ he informed DailyMail.com in an interview.

Jack mentioned he went to mattress early as a result of he was going fishing on Waurika Lake, about 30 miles north of Terral, along with his father the subsequent morning.

Presgrove is usually agreed to be the one driving the Ranger when it flipped, and although he wasn’t injured, he was dirtied from when it hit the bottom.

Carter and Jasmine Milan are mentioned to have helped him bathe to scrub the grime off as he was too drunk to do it himself.

Avery’s mom Stevie Howard wrote in a Fb remark {that a} video was posted on-line that confirmed them showering him, although it has not emerged since.

Others mentioned they remembered seeing the video on the time, however a few of them claimed Presgrove was barely responsive.

The post-mortem report mentioned solely a stick determine drawn in marker on his again was nonetheless seen on his physique when it was discovered.

When and the way the names and doodles scribbled on him on the Saturday night time, together with extra on his entrance seen in a photograph from the Sunday, have been washed off continues to be a matter of appreciable debate.

After showering, his pals mentioned Presgrove placed on a distinct pair of shorts – described as being white within the post-mortem report – and no underwear. Jack described them as ‘loose-fitting wrestling shorts’.

Presgrove quickly after argued with Avery after he requested to sleep in her mattress, however she refused and informed him he needed to sleep on the ground.

‘She informed him he could not sleep in her mattress as a result of he messed along with her buddy the night time earlier than,’ Jack informed a buddy earlier this yr.

The argument upset him, and he wandered off into the night time ‘to chill off’, by no means to be seen alive once more.

‘He walked off to clear his head however he wasn’t mad and there was no beef… We do not know why he acquired mad. Nobody had beef,’ Stephanie wrote in her Snapchat message.

Precisely when Presgrove left the social gathering is unclear, however his pals gave estimates of between 3.15am and three.30am. 

The mismatched footwear

Presgrove was discovered bare by the aspect of the street with solely a pair of footwear on, the shorts having fallen off on the center of the street close by.

One was his Adidas slip-on, and the opposite was a HeyDude branded slip-on.

Presgrove could not discover his different Adidas shoe, and so impulsively pulled on one he discovered mendacity round the home, his pals mentioned.

Elisha Lee earlier this yr defined the opposite shoe belonged to her son, the buddy who was asleep on the sofa and was earlier mendacity on Mikey’s telephone.

‘The footwear proven on the photograph are my sons and on his toes. He had simply had ACL and meniscus surgical procedure and was sporting a pink knee brace, as seen on this Snapchat video supplied to the OHP,’ she wrote, sharing one of many movies of the night time.

‘One in all these footwear sits on a shelf in my son’s closet. The opposite was discovered on Noah. 

‘When my son went to sleep, on this chair that night, he kicked off his footwear and went to sleep.

‘When he was awoken by the sounds of his buddy stating Noah was gone, he discovered his shoe was lacking.’

Presgrove goes lacking

Presgrove’s pals mentioned he had a behavior of wandering off from social gatherings and for some time they did not suppose that night time was any totally different.

Jasmine posted a selfie to Snapchat at 3.41am with the caption ‘properly, Noah’s lacking’, which continues to gasoline condemnation a yr later.

‘I simply need to make one thing clear I posted this image not figuring out that the worst was gonna occur, not figuring out Noah would by no means come again,’ she later wrote in a Fb publish defending herself.

‘It was regular for Noah to surprise off no person thought he would not be again. So do not even suppose for a second simply because I posted meaning I do know what occurred to him as a result of I am simply as clueless as everybody else.

‘I am sick of it. Noah was my buddy and I cherished him a lot. it hurts that individuals may even suppose that any of us may have achieved something to harm him. all of us cherished Noah.

‘Somebody is absolutely on the market pondering they acquired away with homicide as a result of y’all are blaming us for one thing we did not do.’

Jack informed a buddy these nonetheless awake ultimately did go on the lookout for him, however have been nonetheless not in worry of his security.

‘After he was gone for some time, everybody was on the lookout for him, they mentioned, however figuring out Noah I guess he was kidding and did not let anybody discover him,’ he wrote.

He informed DailyMail.com his ATV was even a part of the search: ‘They mentioned they took my Ranger to search for him within the ditches and stuff, however figuring out Noah he was in all probability seeing everybody on the lookout for him and was simply hiding out.’

The buddies mentioned they did not discover him and returned to the home, assuming he’d ultimately flip up.

Presgrove’s household claimed they noticed a video of Avery and Carter screaming at one another on the entrance porch about him strolling off, however the footage has by no means emerged.

Presgrove’s physique is discovered – the 911 calls

Presgrove was solely discovered when two automobiles touring alongside US-81 noticed his physique by the aspect of the street within the early hours of the morning and known as 911.

The 2 callers have been Gulfmark Power area supervisor Tyler Hardy, and a semi-truck driver additionally named Tyler, who did not give his final identify to the 911 operator.

Three calls have been positioned from the realm, however one in every of them was simply 20 seconds of static that Williams mentioned was Hardy on a foul sign.

‘He had a foul connection and he to re-call. I confirmed it was the identical telephone quantity,’ he mentioned.

The primary name, at 5.43am, was from Tyler, whom Hardy earlier mentioned was a trucker for Oklahoma Petroleum Allies who rotated in Terral, about two miles south, and got here again to the scene.

‘I had a bunch of automobiles behind me, nevertheless it seems to be like somebody acquired hit, like anyone strolling down the freeway, [they are] mendacity on the shoulder within the street,’ he mentioned.

‘Yeah, like on the shoulder, like possibly they have been strolling and anyone hit them… until it was a deer, nevertheless it appeared like a physique.’

The dispatcher assured Tyler that she would have an officer reply to the scenario, after which mentioned Sheriff Wilson was on his manner. 

Earlier than the decision ended, Tyler remarked that the scene ‘appeared terrible odd.’

Hardy, who was one of many automobiles behind Tyler, pulled over subsequent to Presgrove and known as 911 at 5.48am, instantly attempting once more after his first name failed.

‘I used to be driving to work south of Terral, and I’m fairly positive somebody is mendacity lifeless on the aspect of the street,’ he mentioned.

‘They appear bare, I’m staying again.’

The dispatcher informed him {that a} deputy was heading towards the scene to deal with the scenario.

Hardy responded that he was parked in the course of the street, so he may forestall different motorists from driving over the physique.

‘I’m sitting right here blocking the street. The physique is mendacity proper on the white line… I rotated as a result of I nearly hit it,’ he mentioned.

‘At first, I believed it was a deer, and I used to be speaking to a man I work with and mentioned, “I do not suppose that may be a deer.”‘

Hardy then informed the dispatcher that ‘it truly seems to be like there is a piece of clothes mendacity in the course of the street’.

‘I don’t need to get too shut… I’ll simply go forward and ensure no person runs it over or anything,’ he mentioned.

The clothes was a pair of white shorts, in line with the post-mortem report, that a few of Presgrove’s pals mentioned he was final seen sporting.

By the point police arrived, the shorts have been folded close to Presgrove’s physique, as they have been described within the post-mortem report.

Jack mentioned he retrieved the shorts and folded them within the jiffy earlier than native police arrived, to forestall automobiles working them over.

What these first on the scene noticed 

Hardy repeatedly insisted nobody touched the physique between when he noticed it, and when police arrived.

‘I used to be the one who discovered the physique so sure I can say 100% that no person messed with Noah, I used to be the primary particular person there,’ he mentioned.

‘I do know who and what I noticed.’

The married father-of-two was driving south in darkness to an early shift when he noticed one thing within the headlights of his Ford F-150 work pickup truck.

He pulled over to take a better look and realized he was wanting on the physique of a younger man, lifeless by the aspect of the street.

Hardy mentioned Presgrove’s physique was mendacity on its aspect, completely bare aside from mismatched footwear, with a pair of shorts mendacity on the street about 25ft away.

Crucially, Hardy mentioned there was little or no blood on the scene regardless of {the teenager}’s large upper-body accidents, together with three cranium fractures.

‘I known as it in and so did the truck driver, we have been on the telephone with them on the similar time,’ he mentioned.

‘We didn’t depart the scene till round 10 am and no person was messing with something.’

Lower than 10 minutes after each he and the truck driver known as 911, Presgrove’s greatest buddy Jack Newton arrived.

‘Jack was the one one that walked as much as to Noah, and he informed me who it was, till the Terral fireplace and Jefferson County Sheriffs confirmed up,’ Hardy mentioned.

Jefferson County Undersheriff Jimmy Williams was the primary policeman to reach on the scene after the 2 motorists noticed the physique and known as 911. 

Williams arrived at 6.18am and solely took a short look earlier than specializing in securing the realm however informed DailyMail.com there was not sufficient blood for it to be starkly noticeable.

‘I did not observe so much [of blood] from what little I used to be there checking – as soon as we decided he was the truth is lifeless, I used to be simply securing the placement,’ he mentioned.

Williams could not say if there was kind of blood than you’ll count on from Presgrove’s accidents, as he was not a medical knowledgeable, nevertheless it was not an apparent quantity.

His observations aligned with Tyler Hardy, the primary driver to cease on the scene, Presgrove’s greatest buddy, Jack Newton, and others who mentioned there was little or no blood across the teen’s physique.

A medical knowledgeable informed DailyMail.com that with the accidents detailed in Presgrove’s post-mortem report, there would have been a whole lot of blood on the scene.

Williams additionally mentioned Presgrove was not mendacity within the fetal place, as some individuals who noticed the physique recalled.

‘He was laying considerably on his aspect, however I would not say he was in a fetal place, no,’ he mentioned, saying his legs have been straight and his arms not tucked into his physique.

The undersheriff mentioned there have been solely 5 folks on the scene when he arrived, and he was joined by Sheriff Jeremie Wilson six minutes later at 6.24am.

Together with the 2 motorists who known as 911 have been two Terral Rural Volunteer Fireplace Division officers, together with its chief, who arrived at 6.15am, and Newton.

Williams mentioned from when he arrived to when he left at 8.17am, solely the sheriff and Oklahoma Freeway Patrol troopers got here to the scene.

‘We saved site visitors transferring aside from individuals who wanted to be there… not lengthy after OHP arrived we shut the street down fully,’ he mentioned.

Presgrove’s pals study the unhealthy information

Jack mentioned he wakened able to go fishing someday after 5.30am and was informed his greatest buddy was lacking.

‘I figured possibly he acquired a trip or one thing, Noah’s achieved that earlier than – acquired mad and left,’ he informed DailyMail.com.

‘He was not one you normally fear about. I wasn’t actually fascinated about it.’

Jack texted his father, Caleb Newton, at 5.53am – coincidentally the identical time because the 911 name – letting him know he was on his manner.

‘I will meet y’all on the lake. Are you able to carry me a hat please… Somebody messed with mine after I went to mattress,’ he wrote. Caleb replied ‘okay’.

Jack assumed Presgrove was nice and left for the lake, driving north till he noticed the semi-trailer and pickup by the aspect of the street.

In a Fb publish final week, Caleb defined how his son known as him to inform him Presgrove was lifeless.

‘At about 6.05 I acquired a name no mum or dad ever desires to get it was quick and arduous to grasp him,’ he wrote.

‘I used to be standing on my boat in my yard, I do know precisely the place I used to be when that decision got here in.

‘I used to be getting [the] boat prepared. Dad was making espresso. We have been very actively on the brink of go to the lake.’

Caleb wrote that he instantly known as his father, who was supposed to return fishing with them, to name the journey off – however was informed to swing by his home lower than a mile away decide him up.

He jumped in his spouse’s automobile as a result of it ‘was probably the most available’ and gunned it the 40 minutes down the freeway from Comanche.

By the point he arrived, native Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies had arrived on the scene at 6.18am and have been securing the scene.

Caleb wrote that when he arrived and noticed the physique, he known as the teenager’s father Victor Presgrove to interrupt the horrific information.

Police lined the physique with a tarpaulin or sheet and retrieved the shorts, which the post-mortem report mentioned have been undamaged regardless of Presgove’s accidents, from the center of the street and neatly folded them close by.

Presgrove’s household has claimed that Caleb picked up one of many tooth mendacity on the street, which he flatly denied.

‘The tooth that was on the street was not moved that I seen. I watched a police officer circle it with white chalk. I identified a tooth to the police, I’d not have picked that up ever,’ he wrote.

He additionally mentioned he was by no means on the social gathering, as one rumor claims, and was at a cookout at a buddy’s home south of Duncan – about an hour away – that night time.

The cleanup 

Caleb mentioned he stayed on the scene for hours till it was ‘cleared and processed’ earlier than he went to the social gathering home to retrieve Jack’s ATV.

‘I went to examine the utv however there have been no indicators of harm or cleansing it was nonetheless very dusty it is an previous utv if it tipped it was minor sufficient to not depart scratches,’ he wrote.

In the meantime, Jasmine and Stephanie’s mom Renee Milan had arrived on the home and ‘run off’ the remaining social gathering company and started to scrub up.

The extent of the cleanup is hotly debated on social media with some claiming there was a ‘sturdy scent of bleach’ later within the day.

Renee, Stevie, and Caleb insist all that was achieved was clearing up beer cans and different alcohol remnants, and there was no try to cover against the law scene.

‘It wasn’t like that. It was a bunch of sitting round and crying and I feel folks have been simply attempting to remain busy,’ Stevie wrote on Fb.

‘By folks I imply dad and mom trigger we did not know what to do. To not conceal something however to assist our children. Did not know easy methods to assist em.’

Caleb mentioned he eliminated the weapons from the home and took them his home, then ‘later and I acquired them to their house owners’.

There are additionally conflicting opinions about whether or not police ever searched the home.

Presgrove’s household claimed the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol informed them that as there was no proof the place his physique was discovered linking him to the social gathering home and no proof against the law was dedicated there, they couldn’t get a search warrant.

However others claimed police have been let on to the property quickly after Presgrove’s demise and have been even proven the place the ATV crashed – however by no means did a forensic search.

The ATV was lastly bought in April so Jack may purchase a ship.

What occurred to Presgrove’s garments and belongings can also be a supply of controversy.

His household declare his garments, together with his American flag shirt he wore to the social gathering however quickly took off in the summertime warmth, have been distributed amongst his pals by Caleb as ‘mementos’ after police examined them, and solely his shorts have been recovered.

Caleb dismissed this as a baseless rumor, however there isn’t a definitive reply about what occurred to the remainder of his garments.

Presgrove had simply purchased a brand new telephone within the days earlier than his demise, and took it and his previous one to the social gathering, leaving them behind when he wandered off.

These have been recovered and examined by detectives, then returned to his household, however his household claimed his pockets was by no means discovered and the final paycheck he acquired was by no means cashed.

What they suppose occurred

Many locals and a few of his household are satisfied Presgrove was crushed to demise, whether or not as a homicide or in a struggle that went too far, then dumped on the freeway.

Suspicion has fallen on his pals for claiming they’d no thought how he died, however they insist none of them may ever damage him.

‘I suppose everybody on the social gathering might be mendacity however I simply can’t see it,’ Jack informed a buddy final yr.

‘I imply Noah’s closest pals. And you already know if everybody was mendacity I don’t suppose everybody can be so cooperative with the cops.’

The OHP in Could mentioned it was not investigating Presgrove’s demise as a homicide, however that did not rule out manslaughter.

Jack has lately informed pals he’s torn between Presgrove being hit at the back of the pinnacle by a passing truck’s mirror or falling, or being pushed, out of a pickup truck.

Suspect within the latter embody a bunch of social gathering company Presgrove’s pals known as the ‘Texas boys’, who have been pals of pals and never well-known by the core group.

‘I’m 50/50 between a semi and the Texas boys… possibly Noah requested them for a trip or one thing… however even when one thing occurred with them it was unintentional,’ he wrote.

‘However man I simply can’t see any children by accident killing somebody and never calling for assist.’

Jack elaborated to DailyMail.com that he did not imagine they’d any cause to kill him or cowl up his demise.

‘These have been good children too, if that is what occurred they’d have known as and tried to get assist for him. They did not actually know Noah so they would not have beef with him,’ he mentioned.

Medical consultants have dismissed the truck mirror concept as not explaining Presgrove’s intensive torso accidents, and believed rather more harm would have been achieved to his head.

Falling onto his head from a car is taken into account extra believable, however Dr Stuart Fischer, an internist physician with intensive expertise in emergency drugs, mentioned he would seemingly have extra important leg accidents.

Jack is satisfied Presgrove died the place he was discovered, and wasn’t moved type a distinct location and dumped to cowl it up.

‘Everyone seems to be saying he was moved after he died, it is inconceivable, I’ve seen it with my very own eyes the spot on the street the place the again of his head hit the bottom, there was a tooth discovered there, his necklace was all destroyed there,’ he informed DailyMail.com.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation known as Presgrove’s demise ‘suspicious’ within the days after his physique was discovered. 

A city able to explode

Because the months wore on with out solutions, Presgrove’s family and friends, together with involved locals, grew extra stressed.

A number of Fb teams have 1000’s of members discussing his demise across the clock with a whole bunch of feedback a day.

Lots of them are indignant on the pals who have been on the social gathering, and their households, whom they accuse – largely with out proof – of overlaying up against the law.

A few of them have been even despatched threats, to which they responded angrily, and plenty of instances confronted their accusers on social media – sparking messy, all-in threads of condemnation.

‘This place is a volcano ready to erupt,’ one involved native informed DailyMail.com.

‘There’s a whole lot of p**sed off folks… I am apprehensive our small communities are going to erupt in violence.

‘It has potential to be very explosive… I do not need to be wherever close to that fireside when it pops off.’

Locals really feel OHP launched its assertion, its first replace in eight months, saying the case was not a homicide investigation in an try to calm tensions.

Presgrove’s household additionally tried to place a lid on the angst after the post-mortem report was launched.

‘We perceive folks’s frustration with the tempo of the investigation,’ his aunt Robyn Smith wrote on Fb.

‘This isn’t an open and shut case. In keeping with some accounts, there have been as many as 40+ folks out and in of that social gathering. That makes for a big pool of individuals to query. 

‘Plenty of the tales being informed don’t align with each other, so having to decipher who’s telling the reality is an entire different matter in itself.’

Smith mentioned she had full religion that investigators have been doing their greatest and dismissed rumors they have been being paid off as ‘ridiculous’.

‘A group of 15 investigators is engaged on this case, together with the OSBI,’ she claimed.

‘Regardless of how well-off some might symbolize themselves to the group, there may be not sufficient cash in these pockets to purchase off that many officers or two businesses.

‘Please be form, and keep in mind, these are the women and men looking for decision for Noah’s household and pals.’

Presgrove’s accidents

Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner Leonardo Roquero dominated Presgrove died of ‘a number of blunt pressure accidents’, however how he acquired them was ‘undetermined’.

His post-mortem report launched on Could 13 detailed intensive accidents to the teenager’s higher physique, together with 10 damaged ribs, critical cranium, neck, and backbone fractures, inside bleeding, mind and organ harm, and cuts and grazes throughout his physique.

There was one intensive cranium fracture working throughout his head, ‘splitting the center base of cranium into two’, and two smaller ones, with police investigators describing his head as being ‘caved in’.

He had about 20ml, or 0.68oz, of blood pooled inside his head from a mind bleed, harm to 4 elements of the mind itself.

There was additionally air in each his cranial cavity and spinal twine, extraordinarily uncommon circumstances solely attributable to large head trauma. 

Each lungs have been punctured and he had inside accidents to his coronary heart, spleen, and abdomen and inside bleeding of a minimum of 1,550ml – about 3.2 pints.

A person Presgrove’s dimension has about 12.6 pints of blood, and would usually die after dropping half of it – although as little as a 3rd can result in demise.

The pores and skin on left aspect of his scalp was torn off to the bone and a clump of hair and pores and skin was discovered in the course of the freeway.

‘Moreover, a clump of hair was noticed on the suitable buttock with out blood or tissue,’ Roquero wrote.

Each his higher and decrease tooth have been damaged ‘with few fragments and located contained in the mouth’ and others strewn throughout the street a number of toes from his physique.

He was bleeding out of his ears and had a lower on his decrease lip and one on his tongue.

Presgrove’s C1, C2, C6, C7 vertebrae have been fractured to various levels and C1 was displaced – indicating a severely damaged neck of the identical form that people who find themselves executed by hanging endure.

He had street rash on higher again and abrasions from grazes on his left shoulder, left arm, left aspect of torso, and each buttocks.

Different grazes have been on his left eyebrow, nook of the left eye and left cheek, left ear, proper neck, and behind his proper ear.

Presgrove had healed abrasions and scabs on his nostril, each arms and knuckles, left foot and heel, spherical therapeutic ulcer on proper thigh – all of which predated the accidents from that night time.

Roquero wrote that there have been ‘no car elements or particles noticed on the scene’, indicating Presgrove was nearly actually not hit by a automobile. 

‘He was bare and was solely sporting unmatching footwear. There was a pair of shorts discovered a number of toes from the decedent and was reported to be his,’ Roquero wrote.

‘Moreover, there have been three items of a white steel chain in addition to a part of a tooth current a number of toes from the decedent.’

Roquero famous there was ‘a drawing in black ink of a stick-figure particular person on the aspect of the suitable thigh’.

The shorts he was sporting have been undamaged, regardless of the grazes on his buttocks, and the slip-on footwear had grass and different particles lodged in them.

Presgrove had a blood alcohol degree of 0.14, however no medication in his system. 

Confronting images of police chalk outlines confirmed his tooth have been discovered scattered throughout the freeway, some a dozen toes from his physique.

Farther away nonetheless is a spot of blood – the one blood discovered on the scene regardless of the intensive accidents throughout his higher physique.

Household pleas

Presgrove’s household complained his pals all claimed to don’t know what occurred to him and the way he ended up lifeless by the roadside simply hours later.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation described his demise as ‘suspicious’ days later, however few particulars have been launched concerning the investigation.

Even Presgrove’s household mentioned they have been at nighttime and the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol refused to offer any particulars to keep up the ‘integrity of the investigation’.

‘The longer you retain the reality inside, the guiltier you change into… you possibly can assist in getting justice for Noah,’ Rawlings mentioned.

‘You may do the suitable factor and should obtain a mercy that was not given to him, however the longer we sit in silence, the more serious it turns into for you.

‘I hope these concerned see that we aren’t budging and the silence fuels our want to know extra. 

‘I miss Noah each day. That is the toughest chapter of my life, however I’m grateful that I’ve a household that won’t surrender on one another.’

Presgrove’s grandmother Deborah Smith additionally known as on his pals to inform the entire story about what occurred the night time he died.

‘While you suppose you may have pals that you just belief with all of your coronary heart after which right here it comes. Sorry Noah that a few of your true pals stabbed you within the again,’ she mentioned.

‘A chunk of my coronary heart is lacking and day-after-day that goes by and Noah does not stroll by the door and nonetheless no reply simply takes one other piece of my coronary heart.’

His aunt Robyn Smith begged anybody with data to a minimum of inform the police so his household would have solutions.

‘We misplaced a tremendous younger man to the horrible selections of others, please don’t allow us to lose out on justice,’ she mentioned.

‘We have heard so many various tales, however now we have but to listen to the reality. The entire reality. Which we deserve. 

‘I do know it is scary and I do know it is arduous, however we need to know what occurred. Noah deserves to have his story informed. We won’t cease looking out and asking. We won’t cease demanding. It’ll come out.’