Alabama Mom Finds Teen Son SH0T, Dismembered & Set On Fire On Mother's Day

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]But they got to pay all of them going to pay.

[00:00:02]Everybody that's involved, I want them to pay for my son.

[00:00:06]Everybody that's involved going to pay for my son.

[00:00:09]Everybody that's involved going to pay for my son. Everybody. A gruesome and heartbreaking story tonight out of Barbour County, Alabama. The family of a missing 18-year-old says after searching for him for days, they made a horrifying discovery in the woods. I looked for 5 days for my son with no help from the Eufaula Police Department. No help. Me and my family in the rain on Mother's Day. I I walked around through woods.

[00:00:37]They basically burnt my baby, shot my baby, burnt them up, and chopped them up.

[00:00:43]Mother's Day 2026. [music] Most people were getting flowers, maybe a brunch reservation, probably a text that took all of 3 minutes to write.

[00:00:54]But Yolonda Wynn was lacing up her boots and going back into the woods again for the fifth day in a row in the rain searching for her son.

[00:01:05]An 18-year-old who went missing in Eufaula, Alabama.

[00:01:09]A small town where everybody knows everybody and everybody's business.

[00:01:15]His family called the police and for 5 days they got nothing back. No updates, no leads, no we're on it.

[00:01:23]So, this family no badge, no training, no crime scene [music] equipment they went into the woods themselves in the rain pushing through trees and mud and they were the ones who found him.

[00:01:37]Girl, we need to talk about Marcoavelli's rump because when this family finally found him, honey, I wish they hadn't. Eufaula, Alabama sits right on the border of Georgia. A river town with old antebellum houses, a lake that brings [music] in tourists, and about 11,000 people who all run in the same tight circles.

[00:01:59]The kind of place where if you sneeze on the east side of town, somebody on the west side already knows about it and has opinions. And for a lot of people in that community, especially in the black neighborhoods, that closeness is everything.

[00:02:13]It's the safety net. It's the system when the system [music] decides not to show up.

[00:02:19]Marquavious Rump Jr. grew up in that world.

[00:02:21]>> [music] >> He was 18.

[00:02:23]He had just earned his GED.

[00:02:25]Which, listen, if you know what it takes to push through and get that done, you know that is not a small thing.

[00:02:33]That is a young [music] man deciding he was going somewhere.

[00:02:36]He had plans to go to welding school.

[00:02:39]He had a direction, a trade, a future he was actively building.

[00:02:44]And when he wasn't focused on all of that, his father, Marcus, described him simply, "He was the life of the party. He was going to make you laugh."

[00:02:53]His home base was his grandmother's house in Eufaula.

[00:02:56]If you grew up in a black household, you already know exactly what that means.

[00:03:01]For Marquavious, that was home.

[00:03:04]And for a while, nothing about his life suggested that was about to change.

[00:03:09]On May 7th, 2026, Marquavious left his grandmother's house and got into a black Nissan with someone he knew.

[00:03:18]Not a stranger.

[00:03:19]Someone familiar.

[00:03:21]Someone [snorts] from his world.

[00:03:23]>> [music] >> He didn't come back that night.

[00:03:25]When he didn't return, the family did exactly what you were supposed to do.

[00:03:30]They called the Eufaula Police Department. [music] They filed a missing person report.

[00:03:35]They trusted the process.

[00:03:37]And then they waited.

[00:03:39]Day one, nothing.

[00:03:41]Day two, nothing.

[00:03:44]Day three, four, five, the phone stayed quiet.

[00:03:48]No leads, no updates, no sense that anyone with a badge was moving with any [music] kind of urgency.

[00:03:55]His mother, Yolanda Wynn, later said it plainly.

[00:04:00]Five days, no help from the Eufaula Police Department.

[00:04:04]Not a single meaningful update. [music] Now, to be fair, Eufaula PD is a small department with limited resources, and missing person cases in small towns don't always move fast.

[00:04:17]That's a reality.

[00:04:18]But, here's the other reality.

[00:04:20]This family did not have [music] the luxury of waiting to find out which side of the urgency gap they were going to fall on. I looked for 5 days for my son with no help from the Eufaula Police Department. No help. Me and my family in the rain on Mother's Day. I I I walked around through woods So, the family moved.

[00:04:39]Words started circulating through the community.

[00:04:42]The kind of quiet, heavy information that travels fast in a small town when something is really wrong.

[00:04:49]People were talking.

[00:04:51]And whatever [music] the family was hearing from those conversations, it was enough to make them stop waiting and start searching.

[00:04:58]They put together a 12-person search party.

[00:05:01]Family, friends, neighbors, people who maybe didn't even know the Rumps personally, but knew a young man was missing [music] and that was enough of a reason.

[00:05:12]They went out with ATVs, drones, and a hound dog and spent 2 hours working their way through the wooded areas off White Oak Church Road.

[00:05:21]One of the search party members, Eliza Franklin, later described what it was like out there on that road.

[00:05:28]She said, "If you think about the worst horror movie you've ever seen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre level, that is what that road felt like.

[00:05:38]That was the energy before they even found anything.

[00:05:42]And then they found something."

[00:05:44]Not even a body there. It wasn't a body to be found. Literally, when you looked at it, they had dismembered this young man, set his body on fire. Members of that same search party also reported finding evidence of blood [music] and burn piles outside a nearby home.

[00:06:02]Not just in the woods.

[00:06:04]Outside a home.

[00:06:06]That detail did not make the loudest headlines, but it is the kind of detail that tells you this was not random.

[00:06:12]This was not chaotic.

[00:06:14]Somebody planned this, and somebody thought they [music] had cleaned it up well enough.

[00:06:19]The brother was there.

[00:06:21]The mother was there.

[00:06:22]The father was there.

[00:06:24]Eliza Franklin said she does not know if she will ever be the same after what she saw on that road.

[00:06:30]And she was just a member of the search party.

[00:06:33]Think about what it meant for the people who loved him.

[00:06:36]By Tuesday morning, Eufaula police confirmed officers had responded to the [music] scene of White Oak Church Road.

[00:06:43]They secured the area, called in the Barbour County Sheriff's Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, cadaver dogs, and fire marshals.

[00:06:53]They came back [music] Tuesday afternoon, too, combing that same stretch of woods for additional remains and evidence, which is great. Good for them.

[00:07:03]But the question everybody in that community was already asking out loud was, where was all of this energy 6 days ago?

[00:07:10]Because while investigators were now carefully processing that [music] scene, this family had already done the hardest part.

[00:07:17]In the rain, over a holiday weekend, with a hound [music] dog they brought themselves.

[00:07:23]Police Chief Danny Christ did go on record [music] and say something that turned heads. We do have suspects.

[00:07:30]Um And my message to them is, if you did this or had anything to do with it, this sick, horrific crime, we're coming for you. We're going to find you.

[00:07:41]Good.

[00:07:42]Say that.

[00:07:44]Mean it. But also understand why a family that spent 5 days begging for help is not exactly doing a standing ovation right now.

[00:07:52]Here is the other thing.

[00:07:54]The police could not even officially confirm the remains were Markalevious because of the condition of the body.

[00:08:00]Shot, dismembered, set on fire.

[00:08:04]A formal identification was not immediately possible.

[00:08:08]His own family found him and the system still could not say for certain it was him.

[00:08:14]Let that land for a second.

[00:08:15]As of this video, no official cause of death has been released.

[00:08:20]No arrests have been made.

[00:08:22]No charges filed.

[00:08:24]The investigation is listed as active which for a grieving family active investigation is about as comforting as somebody handing you a participation trophy after the game already ended badly.

[00:08:37]Now here is where the community took things into their own hands in a different way.

[00:08:42]Because the streets were already talking and the internet moved faster than any press release.

[00:08:48]The name that kept circulating the last person seen with Markalevious [music] when he got into that black Nissan on May 7th was Josiah McKinney.

[00:08:58]Someone from the community someone Markalevious trusted enough to get in a car with. No hesitation.

[00:09:05]And by the time [music] investigators were processing that crime scene on White Oak Church Road, Josiah McKinney's family had already left the state of Alabama.

[00:09:15]His mother, Shamaya McKinney, had deactivated her Facebook account.

[00:09:20]The whole household gone before a single arrest was made. Now leaving a state is not a crime.

[00:09:30]People move.

[00:09:31]People have reasons.

[00:09:33]But in a town of 11,000 people where everybody is watching and everybody is grieving, the exit did not go unnoticed.

[00:09:42]It did not go without questions.

[00:09:45]And it poured gas on a community that was already on fire.

[00:09:50]A cousin of Makaveli's went on Facebook and laid it out with no filter.

[00:09:55]Posting that Makaveli's had been found.

[00:09:58]That no one had [music] been arrested.

[00:09:59]And that Josiah McKinney's family had left Alabama while his mother's Facebook was suddenly gone.

[00:10:06]That post spread fast because people were not just grieving.

[00:10:10]They were watching.

[00:10:11]And they wanted answers.

[00:10:13]Then Shamaya [music] McKinney broke her silence.

[00:10:17]She pushed back publicly saying her son [music] had turned himself into law enforcement and been released.

[00:10:23]She said her properties had been searched.

[00:10:26]City level and county level.

[00:10:28]She asked people not to mistake her silence for guilt.

[00:10:32]And said her silence was [music] out of respect for mother who was missing her child.

[00:10:36]Josiah turned himself [music] in and was released.

[00:10:40]That means no charges were filed at that point. Whatever investigators had or didn't have wasn't enough to hold him.

[00:10:49]That is the system doing exactly what it is built to do.

[00:10:53]But for Makaveli's family and for that community a release did not feel like justice.

[00:11:00]It felt like a door left open.

[00:11:03]Wide open.

[00:11:04]In the wind.

[00:11:06]Here is what this case keeps coming back to.

[00:11:09]And I need you to really hear this part.

[00:11:12]When Makaveli's Rump went missing, his family did everything right. They called the police.

[00:11:18]They filed the report.

[00:11:20]They trusted the process.

[00:11:22]And the process [music] left them standing in wet shoes in the Alabama woods on Mother's Day doing the police department's job for them.

[00:11:29]Finding their child.

[00:11:31]Seeing things no family should ever have to see.

[00:11:35]There is a term people use now.

[00:11:37]Missing white woman syndrome.

[00:11:39]The documented pattern of mainstream media and law enforcement responding with full urgency to certain missing persons cases while others get a fraction of that same attention.

[00:11:50]Black children, black teenagers, black women.

[00:11:54]It is not an opinion.

[00:11:56]It is a pattern that families across this country have been living inside of for a long time.

[00:12:02]And the Rump family did not have the luxury of sitting around to find out which side of that line they were on.

[00:12:08]So they moved themselves.

[00:12:10]And in doing that, in showing up [music] with 12 people, drones, ATVs, and a hound dog, they also showed us something else.

[00:12:19]When the institution failed this family, the community did not.

[00:12:24]That matters.

[00:12:25]That has always mattered.

[00:12:27]Markavious Rump Jr. was 18 years old. He had his GED.

[00:12:33]He had a welding career mapped out.

[00:12:36]He was the life of the party.

[00:12:38]He was going to make you laugh.

[00:12:40]And somebody who knew him, somebody he trusted enough to get in a car with on a regular Thursday, decided that none of that deserved any of that to continue.

[00:12:49]They shot him, dismembered him, and set him on fire in the woods off White Oak Church Road.

[00:12:56]And then they apparently packed a bag and hit the highway like they had somewhere [music] to be.

[00:13:02]I'm dealing with the best I can right now. That is all Marcus Rump had when a reporter asked how a father even begins to process something like this.

[00:13:10]And honestly, what else is there to say?

[00:13:14]There are no words built [music] for that kind of weight.

[00:13:17]He found his son.

[00:13:19]He is dealing with it the best he can.

[00:13:22]And his family is still waiting for justice while the investigation sits listed as active and no arrests [music] have been made.

[00:13:29]If you know anything, anything at all, about what happened to Markavious Rumph on or after May 7th, 2026, contact the Eufaula Police Department at 3 3 4 6 8 7 1 2 0 0.

[00:13:47]The people responsible for this are counting on silence.

[00:13:51]The streets in a town that small do not keep secrets forever.

[00:13:55]And Yolanda Wynn is still out there.

[00:13:57]Still waiting.

[00:13:59]Still saying the same thing she said from day one.

[00:14:02]When they got to pay all of them going to pay.

[00:14:05]Everybody that's involved, I want them to pay for my son.

[00:14:08]Everybody that's involved going to pay for my son.

[00:14:12]Everybody that's involved going to pay for my son. Everybody. She means it.

[00:14:17]>> [music] >> And we are watching.

[00:14:19]Because in a town that small, where everybody knows everybody and everybody's business, somebody out there knows exactly what happened on that road.

[00:14:28]And that information has a way [music] of finding its way out eventually. It always does.