Photo: Auburn Police Department
The remains ofAniah Haley Blanchard,the 19-year-old stepdaughter ofUFC fighter Walt Harriswho went missing on Oct. 24, are believed to have been found.
“I can confirm that human remains have been found in Macon County on County Road 2 and we have good reason to believe they are that of Aniah Blanchard,” Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes tells PEOPLE.
Two men have been arrested on first-degree kidnapping charges in Aniah’s case:Antwain “Squirmy” Fisher,35, and 29-year-oldIbraheem Yazeed.
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Blanchard’s last known whereabouts are difficult to pinpoint, her stepfather Walt Harris previously told PEOPLE. She last communicated with her roommate through Snapchat on Wednesday night, just before midnight, saying she would be home soon. But then minutes later she sent a message saying she was with someone named “Eric,” Harris said.
When her roommate asked who he was, Blanchard wrote back, “I just met him,” according to Harris.
Harris said it’s unlike his stepdaughter to fail to return home, especially when she had work the next morning. She is always in contact with her family, he says, so when her brother couldn’t reach her the next day, the family called the police.
Two days after Blanchard was reported missing, police found her car nearly 60 miles away in Montgomery. Blood evidence recovered from her vehicle shows that shesuffered a “life-threatening injury,”a police affidavit said earlier this month.
Walt Harris, stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard.courtesy Walt Harris
Yazeed, who was arrested in Florida, is being held without bond as he awaits a hearing to be extradited back to Alabama. He has not yet entered a plea, and police records do not reflect an attorney authorized to speak on his behalf.
Fisher is from Montgomery, Alabama, according toWRBL. An attorney for Fisher could not immediately be identified.
source: people.com
