A 22-year-old South Carolina mother of a newborn girl was found dead after she vanished during a birthday trip – telling her family she didn’t feel safe leading up to her tragic disappearance, according to reports.
The body of Ta’Haley Payton was discovered in Charlotte more than three weeks after she was reported missing, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said last week.
She and her boyfriend, who share a 6-month-old girl, traveled about two hours from her home in Spartanburg across state lines on Nov. 19, but her beau went home without her after the pair got into an argument the following day, a friend told the Charlotte Observer this week.
Payton was abandoned with “no phone, no money, no resources,” Kelanie Davis said.
Payton called her mother at a pub afterward to tell her she didn’t feel safe and was going to walk to a nearby Burger King, Fox 10 reported on Monday.
Payton then texted loved ones a few hours afterward that a friend was picking her up, but that never happened, the station reported.
Her family previously said last week that Payton was also admitted to a hospital for postpartum depression and subsequently released on Nov. 20, WBTV reported.
She was last seen that day and found dead on Dec. 11.
“She always said to everybody, never give up, and she always told me how pretty I was,” Davis told the Charlotte Observer of her friend. “Just made sure everybody was confident in themselves. And she knew how pretty she was. She did.”
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said last week the probe into Payton’s death is ongoing. A cause of death has not been revealed.
Davis said this week she knows as little as the public about the investigation.
“I just want my best friend to get the justice she deserves and to lay her easy at rest,” she said.
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