A police informant claims that a woman who went missing from D.C. in December was beaten and shot to death by members of the religious group she was living with, according to court records.
D.C. police say 28-year-old Antoinetta McKoy was last seen on the 1600 block of K Street NE on Dec. 5, as she was preparing to leaving for Durham, N.C. Family members in the District reported McKoy missing last month, Officer Tisha Gant, a D.C. police spokeswoman, said.
In Durham, she lived at a house with about 10 other members of a home-based religious group called the Black Hebrews.
An informant who escaped from the group told investigators that McKoy got into an argument over lost car keys with fellow member Peter Moses in mid-February, according to a search warrant filed in district court in Teller County, Colo., where the other group members who lived in the Durham home have moved.
The search warrant says McKoy ran from the Durham residence and flagged down a passerby for help. Two women came from the home, escorted McKoy back inside and beat her unconscious, according to the warrant. Moses later ordered one of them to shoot and kill McKoy, and the three then buried her, the warrant says.
A 6-year-old Durham boy has also been reported missing. He was shot, wrapped in plastic and put in a suitcase by group members, according to the informant’s testimony.
Neither body and no murder weapons have been located, court records say.
Durham police have only described the case as a missing-person investigation. Kammie Michael, a police spokeswoman, said she couldn’t comment on the search warrant. She said no one has been arrested on charges related to the disappearances.
Janayia Dubose, McKoy’s sister, told the Durham television station WTVD that Moses was her sister’s boyfriend and McKoy said she planned to return to D.C.
McKoy is described as a black woman with medium complexion who is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 150 to 160 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair.
Anyone with information can call Durham police at 919-560-4440.
