Missing
Xavier Gerald Tarrand
Tarrand, approximately 2014
Date and time person was reported missing : 01/15/2014
Missing location (approx) :
Groveland, Florida
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 01/14/1990 (31)
Age at the time of disappearance: 24 years old
Height / Weight : 5'11, 150 - 180 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : An orange and yellow Reese's Pieces jacket or a yellow and brown M&Ms jacket, a white size 2XL t-shirt, a white sleeveless undershirt, size 34 blue jeans, size 9.5 or 10 orange Nike sneakers or red and white sneakers, and a red hat.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Tarrand's nickname is Dudda. He has the following tattoos: the words "Self Made" on his chest, the words "Free Rat" on his right hand, and "Rat $" on his left hand.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Tarrand was last seen in Groveland, Florida at 7:00 p.m. on January 15, 2014, the day after his twenty-fourth birthday. His cousin dropped him off at the Ethnicity : Trac gas station at the intersection of State Roads 50 and 33, near his home. Tarrand told his cousin he had something to do and would return in fifteen minutes.
He got into a black four-door 1997 Honda Accord with the Florida license plate number 236KPV. There was at least one other person, an African-American male, in the car. About thirty or forty minutes later, Tarrand called his cousin and asked him to pick him up at the Ethnicity : Trac station in three minutes. When his cousin arrived, however, Tarrand wasn't there.
Calls to his cellular phone went to voicemail after his disappearance, and eventually either the phone was turned off or the battery died. Over the next several days, some of his belongings were found dumped off Highway 50 in Ocoee, Florida. The car he got into, which had been reported stolen, was found and burned at a landfill in Apopka, Florida on January 20; it had bullet holes in it.
Tarrand's disappearance caused problems between his gang, the Groveland Boys aka the Stuckey Boys, and another gang, the Zellwood Boys, which ultimately led to the shooting death of Justin Russell in February 2014. Travis Leomontez Miller was convicted of second-degree murder in Russell's death. Miller was Tarrand's nephew, and Russell was Miller's second cousin.
Tarrand lived with his grandmother at the time of his disappearance, and kept in daily contact with his family. His mother stated he was having problems with another man at the time of his disappearance, and she thinks this man was involved in his case. He is considered missing under suspicious circumstances and his case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Lake County Sheriff's Office
352-343-2101
Groveland Police Department
352-429-4166
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
