Family members of missing Nevaeh Buchanan say they believe the body found by investigators west of Monroe today is that of the 5-year-old girl. "I'm very, very sad," Shaun Lawson, Nevaeh's uncle, told a crowd of about 200 people gathered Thursday outside of the Charlotte Arms Apartments, where the girl went missing May 24. "It took Nevaeh's life to bring everyone together. ... (Authorities) are waiting for actual confirmation, but (the body) does match Nevaeh's description."Earlier, police cordoned off an area near the River Raisin around Dixon Road in the area of Ida-Maybee and Neiman roads. By 7 p.m., at least four people in white Hazmat suits were walking along the south bank of the River Raisin in an area just east of railroad tracks near Yensch Road.
Monroe County Sheriff's Department and FBI officials would not confirm late Thursday that they had found the child's body. No positive identification of the body had been made by early Thursday evening but sheriff's deputies arrived at the apartment complex about 8:30 p.m. where people, some of them crying, had gathered as news of the developments unfolded.
