The 19-year-old was identified as Tirrell Wiley, who according to the family had Down Syndrome. The family said he loved to dance and go to school.
News4JAX spoke with Wiley’s mother, Terrellyn Simmons, who said her son was found after being hit by a car on I-95 near Clark Road — about two and a half miles south of their home.His mom and stepdad said it is unlikely he just wandered there on his own. Simmons is looking for answers about what happened to him.
According to the family, the teen had Down syndrome. Simmons and her husband, Harrison Simmons, said developmentally, Tirrell was like a five to seven-year-old and mostly non-verbal.She said the last time she saw Tirrell was around 9:30 Thursday night – she said he wasn’t in the living area when she emerged after changing out of her work clothes, and that she assumed he was hanging out in his older brother’s room. But when it was time to get him ready for bed, around 11, he wasn’t there.
Harts Road is located just a few doors down from their Northside apartment complex, so his loved ones don’t see why he would be walking north on the inside lane of I-95 if he had walked there almost two miles from the opposite direction. “He always had swollen feet,” Harrison Simmons, Tirrell’s stepfather, said. “He suffered from gout… so just impossible.”
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