{"id":25977,"date":"2019-06-25T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1052030"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:24:00","slug":"youtube-star-etika-29-found-dead-in-east-river-after-going-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/youtube-star-etika-29-found-dead-in-east-river-after-going-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Star Etika, 29, Found Dead in East River After Going Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.709388971684\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019525\/rs_1024x1188-190625101552-1024-Etika-062519.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"YouTube Star Etika\" alt=\"YouTube Star Etika\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">NYPD CRIME STOPPERS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.861751152074\">\n<p>YouTube star&nbsp;<strong>Etika<\/strong> has been found dead at the age of 29, the NYPD has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>This heartbreaking news comes just days after the NYPD started a search for the YouTuber, whose real name&nbsp;<strong>Desmond Amofah<\/strong>. &#8220;Have you seen Desmond Amofah aka Etika? He was last heard from June 19 at about 8PM by phone,&#8221; the NYPD Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdnews\/status\/1141838051221692416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> on June 20.&nbsp;&#8220;He is 29 years old, approx 6 feet tall, and 160 lbs. He is a known @YouTube blogger and has many people concerned after a recent video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the NYPD shared the tragic news of Etika&#8217;s passing, writing on Twitter, &#8220;We regret to inform that Desmond Amofah aka Etika has been found deceased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Detective <strong>Sophia Mason<\/strong> DCPI Spokesperson also shared in statement, &#8220;On Monday, June 24, 2019 at approximately 1818 hours, police responded to a 911 call for a person floating in the waters in the vicinity of South Street Seaport in the confines of the 1st Precinct. Upon arrival, officers discovered an unresponsive, unidentified male at the location.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"41.391304347826\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.695652173913\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We regret to inform that Desmond Amofah aka Etika has been found deceased. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sedwZZxglw\">https:\/\/t.co\/sedwZZxglw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/1143558996172967937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>The statement continued, &#8220;NYPD Harbor removed the male to the Pier 16 where EMS pronounced him deceased. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this heartbreaking time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1052030\/youtube-star-etika-29-found-dead-in-east-river-after-going-missing?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD CRIME STOPPERS YouTube star&nbsp;Etika has been found dead at the age of 29, the NYPD has confirmed. This heartbreaking news comes just days after the NYPD started a search for the YouTuber, whose real name&nbsp;Desmond Amofah. &#8220;Have you seen Desmond Amofah aka Etika? He was last heard from June 19 at about 8PM by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 17:21:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}