Police are asking for the public's help identifying a man they say is a suspect in the death of a 24-year-old New Jersey man whose body was found in a car trunk after an apparent kidnapping.
The NYPD released surveillance video of a man they say exited the 2013 BMW where Jordan Johnson's body was discovered on Thursday in the Bronx. The man can be seen on the video walking down the street, with the raised hood of his coat obscuring his face.
Johnson's girlfriend, Megan Faulkner, reported him missing earlier in the week when he didn't meet her in Harlem despite telling her to go to the neighborhood in a text.
Johnson's sister, Jacqueline Taylor, said something was off about the messages Faulkner got late Tuesday from Johnson's phone.
She said Faulkner didn't feel like they were coming from her boyfriend, despite being sent from his cell, but Faulkner left the couple's Fort Lee apartment to meet him in Harlem anyway.
When Johnson didn't show or respond to her texts and calls, Faulkner told police he was missing. Then she returned to their apartment across the river and found it burglarized, authorities said.
A large amount of cash and jewelry were missing, police said.
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Nearly two days after he was reported missing, Johnson's body was discovered in the trunk of his car on East 211th Street in Norwood. Police have not said how Johnson died.
