Body of Missing Main Line Teen Found

The body of missing Newtown Square teenager Cayman Naib was found Sunday afternoon, his family said.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share news that the family has just learned through the search and rescue team and local law enforcement that Cayman has been found deceased,” Cayman’s family wrote on the Find Cayman Facebook page.

Cayman Naib, 13, left his Newtown Square home around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, Newtown Township Police said Thursday morning.

Cayman was an eighth-grade student at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, police said.

Cayman on Wednesday received an e-mail from the school that upset him, his family shared on the Find Cayman Facebook group, and that seems to have prompted his leaving home.

Cayman was last seen around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, walking west on Church Road.

His body was found by searchers Sunday a few hundred yards from his Harrison Drive home, The Philadelphia Inquirer said. Authorities told the Inquirer that his body was in the bed of Darby Creek, near the intersection of St. Davids and Paper Mill roads. The cause of death was not immediately apparent, authorities said.

The community had rallied around the Naib family in the past few days. Hundreds of people showed up at Episcopal Academy on Saturday and Sunday to help with search efforts. The Find Cayman Facebook page has been liked by more than 20,000 people.

“We can’t begin to tell you how this support and concern and prayers have buoyed the Naibs during this incredibly difficult time. We would ask at this point that the family be given the privacy and quiet that they need to grieve, heal, and to support their daughter,” read a posting to Find Cayman after the discovery of Cayman’s body.