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According to Margaret Matray, a boy whose body was found in the trunk of his mother’s car in June likely had been dead for more than a decade according to new court records. His mother has been charged in his death. Tonya Slaton was directly indicted in Hampton Circuit Court on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Quincy Jamar Davis, who disappeared in 2004 and was never reported missing. The indictment charges Slaton with killing her son between July 24, 2004, and July 24, 2005. Quincy would have been around 14 or 15 at the time. The cause of his death is underdetermined according to the medical examiners.
Quincy would have been 25 years old now. His classmates have not seen him since his seventh grade year of school. Slaton age

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