At this level, it’s tough to not get upset or suspicious every time a Black man is discovered hanged and his loss of life is swiftly dominated a suicide.
On Sept. 17, 2024, the physique of 29-year-old Jayvon Givan was discovered hanging from a steel chain from a business constructing in Corrales, New Mexico, in line with The Kansas Metropolis Defender. The Albuquerque Police Division dominated his loss of life a suicide, as did an investigator with the Workplace of the Medical Investigator (OMI), who reportedly examined Givan’s physique on the scene and decided there have been no indicators of foul play. Already, this story is sounding eerily just like that of a number of latest circumstances of Black folks discovered hanging, just for it to be dominated, seemingly instantly, that they took their very own lives. The one actual distinction this time is that Givan was discovered hanging from a series and pillar moderately than a tree.
“They did discover the person, hanging by a series, mainly a pillar of a wall that was exterior of a enterprise that was closed for renovations,” APD’s Director of Communications Gilbert Gallegos advised KOAT 7. “There was a bolt or one thing on the high of the wall. Not very excessive, possibly seven toes or so. The chain sort of wrapped round it. So, he was only a couple toes up from the bottom. It wasn’t a tree. There wasn’t a forest or something like that.”
One other similarity Givan’s story shares with that of different Black folks discovered hanging is that his household just isn’t shopping for that he killed himself — and with good cause. One factor regulation enforcement officers haven’t give you an inexpensive rationalization for but is why Givan’s household didn’t find out about his loss of life till greater than a 12 months after it occurred.
On Oct. 1, 2025, 384 days after Givan’s physique was found, his twin sister, Jaivryon Walker, filed a lacking individual’s report, saying the household hadn’t heard from Givan since August 28, 2024, which might have been 20 days earlier than authorities stated he died.
“He reached out to all people for cash on the identical day,” Walker advised The Defender. “Greater than 20 folks stated that Jayvon contacted them on August 28, 2024. All people stated the identical factor. It appeared like he was operating from one thing.”
From KOAT:
Officers have been dispatched to APD in reference to a caller who suggested her twin brother had been lacking for about one 12 months.
She suggested she was calling from Kansas Metropolis, and Givan was final identified to be in Albuquerque
In response to APD, she advised officers Givan left Kansas Metropolis to backpack by way of America roughly one 12 months and two months in the past. In response to officers, she said he suggested her he was in “bother,” however was OK.
In response to Givan’s sister, the household had not heard from Givan since.
She described her brother as an roughly “5’07” Black male grownup, roughly 140 kilos with black hair and brown eyes.” Givan has a tattoo on his left arm with clouds and palms. She didn’t point out any bodily or psychological well being points.
Givan was entered into the NCIC (Nationwide Crime Data Middle, Lacking and Unidentified Individuals system)
“She had officers report him as lacking, which they did. These officers turned it over to the dispatcher to show it over to the lacking individuals unit on Friday, and our detective with the lacking individuals unit seemed up his title, discovered that there was a report from final 12 months from that loss of life that was dominated a suicide,” Gallegos stated. “The lacking individual’s detective contacted this man’s sister, who had referred to as us, reported to her that he sadly had died by suicide, and defined the circumstances as he understood it. That’s the final contact we had with the member of the family. It’s apparent that she didn’t know forward of time.”
The truth is, in line with the Defender, Givan’s physique had been cremated by the point his household discovered he was lifeless.
From the Defender:
Nearly no investigation. No post-mortem to the household’s information. No notification. Only a two-page incident report classifying a Black man discovered hanged in public as “suicide” and a physique turned to ash earlier than anybody who beloved him might say goodbye.
“That isn’t negligence. And it’s not a rumor like we’ve heard folks on-line say. It is a cover-up,” organizers from Constructing Energy for Black New Mexico, had been sporting a hospital bracelet when he was discovered, suggesting a latest medical go to. Hundreds of thousands for Prisoners New Mexico, Albuquerque Save the Youngsters, and the SouthWest Solidarity Community advised The Defender in a press release forward of an emergency press convention on October sixth 2025.
The Defender has obtained the total police stories, and what they reveal is a division that by no means meant to research Jayvon Givan’s loss of life meaningfully in any respect.
Significantly, how does this work? How are the investigators capable of decide a lot about Givan that they’ll know with certainty that his loss of life was a suicide with out even having found out who he was? In the event that they did know his identification, how might they cremate his physique earlier than discovering his household? Why weren’t they capable of finding his subsequent of kin? What’s even happening right here?
Truly, in line with KOB 4, investigators needed to have identified who Givan was, as he had been sporting a hospital bracelet when he was discovered, suggesting a latest medical go to. In response to the police report, his final identified tackle was at an emergency housing shelter in Santa Fe, and, on the time of his loss of life, he had an energetic warrant on a cost of conspiracy to commit armed theft tied to a Cricket Wi-fi theft investigation, accusing Givan of stealing cell telephones to trade them for money at Eco ATMs. Once more, how is it attainable that investigators had this a lot data on him, and but, his household had no concept he was lifeless till greater than a 12 months later?
His journal was additionally discovered on the scene, and, apparently, a few of its contents led investigators to consider he took his personal life.
“I did watch slightly little bit of the OBRD (physique cam), and I feel simply studying among the issues that have been in his journal — the pocket book that was there, led them in that route. So far as the bodily proof, he was positioned in a means the place you possibly can see the place he might have might have executed what they recommended,” Gallego advised KOAT.
Yeah, sorry, however even for a copsplanation, that was simply ineffective.
Look, simply final month, activists, members of the family, attorneys, and folks throughout social media have been calling for an impartial investigation into the loss of life of 21-year-old Delta State College scholar Demartravion “Trey” Reed, who was found mysteriously hanging from a tree on campus. Reed’s loss of life was additionally shortly dominated a suicide after investigators decided “there isn’t a proof of foul play.” And Reed’s household was, on the very least, uncertain that he took his personal life, and, extra to the purpose, sure that the authorities have been being far lower than clear concerning the circumstances surrounding his loss of life, very like Givan’s household, who says that no matter what “bother” he may need been in, he confirmed no indicators that he would take his personal life.
“After I say he beloved life, he beloved life. That isn’t a suicidal individual. Nothing about him comes throughout suicidal. It’s elevating pink flags with all our members of the family as a result of we all know who he’s,” Walker advised the Defender, noting that her brother had a girlfriend who was pregnant.
As in all of those latest circumstances, Jayvon Givan’s household is asking for a full and sincere investigation into his loss of life, and justice whether it is found that he didn’t kill himself. Sadly, these circumstances have a tendency to finish with the authorities sticking to their weapons and leaving these circumstances closed because the suicides they have been initially dominated as.
In Givan’s case, they should have a rattling good rationalization for why his household wasn’t notified, and, thus far, it doesn’t seem that they’ve one.
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