Reported Missing, Toddler Found Dead In Shed; Tristan Anderson Arrested

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 21st, 2011, 10:48 AM

Did he have a discussion with himself?
"I'll just put the body in the shed and figure it out later"
"Sounds like a plan"
And of course, there's the inevitable question of how the mom could fall for such nonsense.

Shreveport Police have made an arrest in the death of a Shreveport toddler whose body was found late Thursday in his mother's backyard shed.

The mother's boyfriend, 26-year-old Tristan Anderson is charged with First Degree Homicide in the death of two-year-old Ja'Marsay Summerfield.
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In the early evening of Thursday, October 20th, Shreveport Police Investigators went to a residence in the 8500 block of Panetella Lane, a house shared by both Tamera Summerfield and Anderson. During a welfare search around the residence, investigators discovered the toddler's body in a storeroom located off the carport area.

Further interviewing of witnesses lead investigators to believe the toddler was last seen in the custody of Anderson, who was subsequently arrested and booked into the city jail for one count of First Degree Homicide.

http://www.kltv.com/story/15765272/s...-backyard-shed

The child's mother had reported him missing on Wednesday -- two weeks after she last saw him, Shreveport police said.

Police said the mother, Tamera Summerfield, 28, told officers she had left her child with Anderson on Oct. 7 and believed Ja'marsay was being cared for by Anderson's mother and sister.

http://www.ktbs.com/news/29549346/detail.html

Tamara Summerfield, 28, told police her two-year-old son, Ja’marsay Summerfield, was missing. According to initial statements given to patrolmen, Ja’marsay had allegedly been left with relatives of Tamara’s boyfriend back on October 7 and had not been returned home.
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Investigators are also attempting to determine why Ja’marsay had not been reported missing until last night.

http://www.ktbs.com/news/29544768/detail.html

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 11:24 AM

Assholes.

**AngelFire** · October 21st, 2011, 11:26 AM

WHAT?? Didn't report him missing all that time? Where did she think he went off to, he was only 2.

**Saffron** · October 21st, 2011, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Mybabiesmomma

WHAT?? Didn't report him missing all that time? Where did she think he went off to, he was only 2.

It says she left him with the boyfriend and she thought he was being cared for by the BF's mother and sister... of course, why would you let someone watch your kid for two weeks and not call them to check on how he was doing? And why would you have someone watch your kid that long without good reason?

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Saffron

why would you let someone watch your kid for two weeks and not call them to check on how he was doing? And why would you have someone watch your kid that long without good reason?

Cause they're all assholes.

**JuneOh** · October 21st, 2011, 11:45 AM

All these people being killed and put in the shed. I'm going to be creeped out by sheds from here on out I think.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 21st, 2011, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by JuneOh

All these people being killed and put in the shed. I'm going to be creeped out by sheds from here on out I think.

Couches are more evil than sheds.

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Dakota Valkyrie

Couches are more evil than sheds.

They're right up there with bathtubs.

**mommy2three** · October 21st, 2011, 02:01 PM

i was just thinking the same thing. When I leave my 4 year old with her grandparents I call to say goodnight and make sure she isn't driving them up the wall! Great parenting! Some people should be sterilized~

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 21st, 2011, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by mommy2three

i was just thinking the same thing. When I leave my 4 year old with her grandparents I call to say goodnight and make sure she isn't driving them up the wall! Great parenting! Some people should be sterilized~

I'm obviously a horrid parent. When my kids went to my mom's for a week every summer, I called mid-week. Mom knew how to use a phone and she always ended up with better behaved kids for some reason. Although, things would have been different if I had ever left them with the family of my latest fuck... something I can't imagine ever doing.

Actually, now that I think on it, she never left Ja’marsay with the "mom and sister". Asshat did. I would have called for sure. Who the hell leaves a kid with one person - only to discover they gave them to someone else? And then lets it continue on and on for 2 weeks?

**VXIII** · October 21st, 2011, 02:55 PM

Was he the father of the boy? Does anyone else think the baby looks a lot like his killer?

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 21st, 2011, 04:21 PM

Looks like she DID know he was going away... and did try to call.

He wanted pickles, so Tamera Summerfield packed pickles and apple sauce - his favorite – in his bags to take on the trip.

Two-year-old Ja’marsay had never been away from his mother, but Summerfield thought she knew her boyfriend’s relatives well enough to send her only child on a mini-vacation with them. They supposedly left Shreveport Oct. 7 headed to Austin, Texas.

Days then nearly two weeks went by, and Summerfield never heard from her child.

“I kept calling them and calling them,” the 28-year-old said. “And his (her boyfriend) mama and sister kept telling me they had my baby. They were going to bring him home.”

It’s unknown if Ja’marsay ever made it Texas or even left Shreveport. Thursday night, one day after Summerfield reported him missing, detectives found the toddler’s body locked in a storage room attached to her Panetella Lane residence.

The woman’s boyfriend Tristan Anderson, 26, later was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the child’s death. Summerfield told police she left the child with Anderson and believed Ja'marsay was in the joint custody of Anderson's mother and sister.

“”I was blind,” Summerfield said in a cracking voice. “I would have never left my baby with someone who would have hurt him. That was the first time I’ve ever done that, and he killed my baby.”

Authorities are awaiting autopsy reports to determine when and how the child died. Police would not say if there were signs of physical abuse to the child. They also declined to say if more arrests are expected.
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Anderson was among a group of people who accompanied the child’s mother to the police station Thursday morning to formally file a missing persons report. It was then that investigators began questioning the potential witnesses.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...g-her-son-dead

There's a video at the link. What do you guys think of it?

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 04:40 PM

Jesus Christ, that is fucking horrible. It reminds me of that poor kid in NY, Leiby Kletzy. The one who was allowed to walk home alone for the very first time and then ran into that sadistic asshole. This poor woman sends her baby away for the first time and this shit happens? I'm rethinking my adult night out.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 21st, 2011, 04:44 PM

Did you watch the video? Maybe I'm jaded...

**VXIII** · October 21st, 2011, 04:57 PM

I watched the video and at first was thinking she isnt even crying, then she started sobbing, her story doesnt appear rehearsed either,, the words are coming out natural and she dont appear to be pausing to think about what she wants to say. She also kept saying I LOVE my baby, think she said something like tomorrow IS his bday, like she has not accepted the idea he is dead, I can see it plausible that the mother and sister and bf were lying to her, over and over when she called, so why isnt the gma and sister in jail also?

I dont know, have to wait for more information... so many times people are good actors you never know.

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dakota Valkyrie

Did you watch the video? Maybe I'm jaded...

I haven't watched the video yet, cause I can't hear the damn audio. Does it look/sound like she's lying?

**Hellsbells** · October 21st, 2011, 05:06 PM

Did you watch the video? Maybe I'm jaded...

I did not believe a word she said

**tmdgirl** · October 21st, 2011, 05:06 PM

So the baby was found in a storage locker attached to HER OWN HOUSE. And he has been gone for 2 weeks...did she not notice any smell around her house?? After that amount of time, the poor little baby must have been emitting some sort of nasty odour.

If she didn't know anything about what happened to Ja'marsay, the asshole had some nerve hiding the body at the mother's house. And for his mom and sister to cover for him like that, they should be locked up too.

**Silvahalo** · October 21st, 2011, 05:11 PM

I watched the video. Hmm. Well, she's upset but I expected more? I know people are different on how they grieve, don't
think I'd be able to mutter a coherent word other than, "I'm gonna kill the motherfucker, no mountain high enough!". . .I'd be a total mess.

I just wonder during the time they had her baby and she spoke to him/them, did she know where they were? still in town or supposedly in Texas? I would have been all over it with the side-stepping to talk to my child, would not have gone weeks with
me having to ask and ask where my baby is put him on the phone. I feel for the mother, truly I do, but I sure would like more info.
Vigilance should be every mother's middle name. Use it.

Baby boy probably cried for mama as he lay dying if he wasn't taken quickly that is. I hope it was quick. ...sweet child.
Rest in peace Ja'Marsay Summerfield.

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 05:16 PM

The storage shed was attached to the mom's house? Not the asshat boyfriend's mom's house?

If mom had anything to do with it, the others will roll over her soon enough.

**slukic** · October 21st, 2011, 05:17 PM

I think she was genuine. Her pain was real. I lost a child to SIDS and I had moments of crying and moments where I could talk. I think very poor judgement on her part, but her pain was very real.

**princessgrandma** · October 21st, 2011, 05:22 PM

Something's just not clicking here. OK, she supposedly left the baby with her boyfriend and he and his family took him away on a little trip? My bullshit meter is off the board on this one. When my kids were babies and/or toddlers, they went to Florida to visit grandma for a couple of months at a time. No big deal. BUT....just about every single day, I was on the phone WITH the kids, or listening to them make baby noises, whatever. Didn't she ever ask to hear his little voice, even if he couldn't really "talk," he could make noises for mommy, right?

Or am I weird for doing that shit? I HAD to hear their voices, hear their noises, whatever they would do. I don't care if they just burped or farted over the phone. I had to hear their noise. How could you go two weeks and not know that something was up? If I'm off on this one, that's fine, I'll apologize, but mom's just not coming off as very sympathetic or very motherly if you ask me.

**Silvahalo** · October 21st, 2011, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by VXIII

I watched the video and at first was thinking she isnt even crying, then she started sobbing, her story doesnt appear rehearsed either,, the words are coming out natural and she dont appear to be pausing to think about what she wants to say. She also kept saying I LOVE my baby, think she said something like tomorrow IS his bday, like she has not accepted the idea he is dead, I can see it plausible that the mother and sister and bf were lying to her, over and over when she called, so why isnt the gma and sister in jail also?

I dont know, have to wait for more information... so many times people are good actors you never know.

His birthday is December 11th I think is what she said, said she's planning it already. She did say several times how much she loves him. Now days it's so hard to tell. I didn't get the feeling she was lying but her reaction was calmer than expected. Suppose she's in shock.

I find it entirely odd that his little body was stored right there by the car port and she didn't smell a thing? hmm.
AND why was a wellfair check being conducted? because of her call? if she called police then I they would go there and start to look there first? and when exactly did she realize he was missing??
but then finding his body on the premises would, I would think ring alarm bells? so strange, guess I'm missing something.

**AngelFire** · October 21st, 2011, 05:30 PM

I feel horrible for her. I can't tell whether she is genuine or not. I will wait for more details before I decide. I am leaning towards the fact she didn't know, but again, not sure all together. I hope she didn't know.

**Silvahalo** · October 21st, 2011, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by princessgrandma

Something's just not clicking here. OK, she supposedly left the baby with her boyfriend and he and his family took him away on a little trip? My bullshit meter is off the board on this one. When my kids were babies and/or toddlers, they went to Florida to visit grandma for a couple of months at a time. No big deal. BUT....just about every single day, I was on the phone WITH the kids, or listening to them make baby noises, whatever. Didn't she ever ask to hear his little voice, even if he couldn't really "talk," he could make noises for mommy, right?

Or am I weird for doing that shit? I HAD to hear their voices, hear their noises, whatever they would do. I don't care if they just burped or farted over the phone. I had to hear their noise. How could you go two weeks and not know that something was up? If I'm off on this one, that's fine, I'll apologize, but mom's just not coming off as very sympathetic or very motherly if you ask me.

On the video she says she did call him/them and wanted to talk to her baby but that they always had an excuse why he wasn't there. I'd be all over that per my earlier post, but then I speak for myself only.
I can't read into this right now 'cause I'm fuming over baby Lisa Irwin so head and hearts a mess.
Can't think right now, just waiting 'till it's all said and done but it's clear it's all bad.

**VXIII** · October 21st, 2011, 05:55 PM

Either way they will find out pretty quickly...

**Bohring** · October 21st, 2011, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by Silvahalo

I'm fuming over baby Lisa Irwin right now. Can't think clear, just waiting 'till it's all said and done but it's clear it's all bad.

That one is really hitting me hard as well.

**TearCollector** · October 21st, 2011, 06:33 PM

If after a week of not speaking to your kid, wouldn't you already be suspicious and raising hell?
I can't imagine believing that my child couldn't speak to me for TWO WEEKS. Hell no!
I would immediately run to the cops after the first couple of days.
Something just doesn't sit right with me about this.
If he was in the shed for two weeks, it's not possible to miss the smell of decomposition.
Is she just that gullible? Is he that convincing?

Guess I shall wait and see.....

**AngelFire** · October 21st, 2011, 06:40 PM

After Shaniya Davis, you would think people would stop taking others word that their kid is safe and well taken care of. When my kids stayed at their grandma's I would speak to them every other day. But had I called and was told they were busy, or somewhere else, I would call that other place or call them when they got in. But you can bet your bottom dollar I would speak to my kids.

**crimsonsorrow** · October 21st, 2011, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by Bohring

Jesus Christ, that is fucking horrible. It reminds me of that poor kid in NY, Leiby Kletzy. The one who was allowed to walk home alone for the very first time and then ran into that sadistic asshole. This poor woman sends her baby away for the first time and this shit happens? I'm rethinking my adult night out.

exactly. that story is always in the back of my mind when i think about my kid going anywhere alone..