Crime & Safety
Missing Teen Found Dead Weeks After Disappearance: LAPD
Foul play is not suspected in the 16-year-old's death, according to police.
LOS ANGELES — A 16-year-old who went missing nearly a month ago has been found dead, according to Los Angeles police.
“Mohammod Tahir has been found deceased,” police said Sunday in a two-sentence news release. “No foul play is suspected.”
Tahir was last seen alive at 7 p.m. on Feb. 24 walking in the 15800 block of South Vermont Avenue, according to police, who said in a Feb. 28 news release that the teen's family and the police department’s Southeast Division were requesting the public’s help to find him. Tahir suffered from medical conditions, police said at the time.
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