When you have hope, sometimes you block out anything and everything that has the potential to take it from you. That is, in some ways, what I believe Stepha Henry has done for the better part of a year, after her 22-year-old daughter Stepha disappeared after going out with a family acquaintance on the last day of Labor Day weekend last year.
For months, myself and other members of a local community organization, the Watch Group, immersed ourselves in the case, with a couple of us getting to know Ms. Henry and her family well. This is the outcome we dreaded, and were bracing ourselves for:
Miami Herald, Jan. 15 - The news of the arrest of a 32-year-old man on charges he killed Stepha Henry, the 22-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has been missing since Memorial Day weekend, provided mild relief to her father Steve Henry. [FYI: The man pictured in the photo at left is the suspect, Kendrick Williams, on the night he and Stepha went to Peppers Cafe in Broward County. When Gary Johnson and other members of the Watch Group went out with Texas Equusearch to try and find Stepha with other volunteers, they were looking for the white tank top and black blouse that Stepha has on in this pic, which was taken some time on the night of May 29.]
''We've been looking for Stepha for so long,'' he said Tuesday afternoon. ``They say they have this guy. We are sad but we are happy. Maybe he will lead us to her.''
Miami-Dade detectives arrested Kendrick Lincoln Williams in New York on Tuesday morning.
[Kendrick Williams is known to the Henry family. He is a Grenadian who also has Trinidadian roots. He also has a wife and child...]
They found him sleeping inside a vehicle in a parking lot at Canarsie Pier, in the Jamaica Bay section of Brooklyn.
He was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
Henry, an aspiring attorney and a recent John Jay College honors graduate, had been in South Florida over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate her 16-year-old sister Shola's birthday. They were staying with relatives in Miami Gardens.
Henry spent several days shopping and going to the beach. On the night of May 29, before she was to leave, she called her mother and said she was going to a nightclub.
Williams picked her up in a dark-colored Acura Integra at her aunt's home. He had purchased the car in New York and driven it down to Florida, Miami-Dade police said.
The pair went to Peppers Cafe nightclub in Sunrise.
A camera crew taping a promotional video at the club that night captured footage of Henry inside the club.
It was the last time she was seen alive. ...
Detectives found the car in September, apparently -- something my sources weren't telling me at the time. Once they did, it was just a matter of time before they picked this guy up. It's a sad outcome, and I pray that Ms. Henry and her family find some sort of closure, and the police put the screws to that murdering S.O.B. and make him tell them where Stepha's body is.
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