Teen Audreona Barnes, 19, found dead under pile of clothes on balcony after disappearing 8 months ago with strange text

A MISSING teenager has been found dead under a pile of clothes on the balcony in her boyfriend’s former apartment, police say.

Audreona Barnes, 19, disappeared on July 30, 2021, after sending a strange text that her family said “didn’t seem like it came from her.”

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Audreona Barnes, 19, was found dead in a Cleveland, Ohio, apartment[/caption]

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A cleaner reportedly found the body under a pile of clothes on a balcony[/caption]

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The apartment where her body was found in the same neighborhood where she was last seen[/caption]

Her body was reportedly found after police were called to the Cleveland, Ohio, apartment on Thursday after a cleaner came across the remains, WJW reported.

The cleaner allegedly found the body, which was wrapped in a blanket, after moving a pile of clothing that was on top of it on the apartment’s balcony.

The home’s most recent tenant, Barnes’ boyfriend Bennie Washington, had been evicted on March 11, police said.

Washington, 39, has been arrested and charged with aggravated murder and gross abuse of a corpse.

The medical examiner determined that Barnes had been shot in the head, according to court records.

Investigators reportedly found bullet casings near her body and a bullet hole in a wall inside the apartment.

It’s unclear how long the body had been on the balcony, but police say it appeared it had been purposely left outside to speed up decomposition.

Police had received reports about Washington’s “erratic behavior in public” in the weeks before his arrest on Monday, per court records.

Barnes had reportedly met with Army recruiters the day she went missing.

Police had told Cleveland19 that the recruiters picked her up and dropped her off at her boyfriend’s house, but it was unclear if Barnes had made it inside the apartment.

According to her mother, Akua Avegnon, she was last seen being dropped off at her boyfriend’s house in Cleveland.

Barnes’ boyfriend received a text from her number asking to be picked up at a gas station, Avegnon claims, adding that the text “didn’t seem like it came from her.”

That was the last time anyone heard from Barnes, per her family, who said her social media accounts were deactivated and her phone was turned off.

Warrensville Heights Detective Gregory Curry told the local news outlet he had tried to interview Barnes’ boyfriend but was unsuccesful.

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The home’s most recent tenant had been evicted on March 11, police said[/caption]

Akua Avegnon

Barnes disappeared on July 30, 2021, after sending a strange text that her family said “didn’t seem like it came from her”[/caption]