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| Dorien Jackson |
The Black Urban Times
Contact reporter Alicia Cruz at nj.newsroom.cruz@gmail.com
January 10, 2013 was like any other night in the home of Betty and Henry Jackson. Their son, Dorien Jackson was home watching a movie and preparing a late night snack when he suddenly received a telephone call from a friend.
Within minutes Dorien was gone. He left a snack in the toaster, his television on and took off to meet his friend wearing flannel pajama pants, a jacket and riding his brother's dirt bike. It would be the last time the Jackson's would see their son alive.
Three days later, Betty telephoned the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office to report her son missing. Dorien had left home in the past and stayed gone for a few days, but this time would prove to be different.
The Jackson family says no one heard from Dorien, there was no activity on his Facebook page and none of his friends seemed to know where the teenager had gone.
Two months later, Betty and Henry Jackson worry turned to unbearable grief after they received word that a body found in a Greensboro Lake was that of their son, Dorien. He was 18-years-old.
Investigators are calling Dorien's death a homicide, but have no suspects and have not said how Dorien was murdered.
Media reports say Dorien was last seen on Penny Road in Jamestown, North Carolina around 1:00 a.m. -- almost an hour after he left his parents Tangle Lane home on January 10. Two weeks after his disappearance, police found Dorien's bike on Penny Road at the back entrance of City Lake Park, but Dorien was nowhere to be found.
Investigators focused their search in the High Point neighborhood, Jackson and the Five Points area since these were areas Dorien was known to frequent, but again, they came up empty handed.
When police identified the body found by a fisherman in Lake Townsend as that of Dorien Jackson, his family was shocked. The friend Dorien left to visit the night he disappeared lived 10 minutes away from the Jackson's home. The Lake where his body was discovered is approximately 20 miles away.
Investigators are asking that anyone with information regarding Dorien's murder or disappearance to contact Detective D.K. Jones at (336) 641-5968 or (336) 641-3690 or contact the Black and Missing Foundation’s confidential Tip Line.
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