Ashton Kai Mitchell

• Missing Since 08/06/2023
• Missing From Florissant, Missouri
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Male
• Race Black
• Date of Birth 06/12/2020 (5)
• Age 3 years old
• Height and Weight 2'0, 40 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Black male. Black hair, hazel eyes.

Details of Disappearance

Ashton's grandmother, Shelita Gipson, reported Ashton and his mother, her daughter Gerrielle German, missing in July 2023. Gipson stated her daughter left her husband of less than two months, took Ashton and left Horn Lake, Mississippi to travel to Berkeley, Missouri. She never contacted her family again.

German told her mother she was going on a "spiritual journey". Gipson noted that her daughter had been meditating and talking about things such as "high frequency, low frequency and cosmic husbands" prior to her disappearance. She said her daughter left with Ashton suddenly and without explanation, leaving her four-year-old daughter behind with relatives.

Ashton and German were last known to be living at a rental home on Graham Lane in Berkeley, Missouri in August 2023. They lived with four other people: Naaman Williams, Mikayla Thompson, Ma’Kayla Wickerson, and Ma’Kayla's two-year-old daughter Malaiyah Wickerson.

Neighbors said the residents of that house practiced daily meditation and worship in their backyard, sometimes in the nude. The home was owned by a company in Arizona, and Ma'Kayla's name was on the lease, but on July 27, 2023, the six residents were served with an eviction notice; Ma'Kayla owed at least three months' rent.

All six of them disappeared. They were last seen at a Quality Inn Hotel in the 50 block of Dunn Road in Florissant, Missouri on August 6. When the police conducted a welfare check at the rental home in Berkeley, they found no indications of forced entry, but they did see signs that the occupants had left unexpectedly. There was food in the microwave, dishes in the sink and laundry in the washing machine, and valuables had been left behind, including a closet full of expensive women's shoes.

The disappearances may be connected to Rashad Jamal (whose legal name is Rashad Jamal White), who is serving an eighteen-year sentence in Georgia for child molestation. A photo of him is posted with this case summary. Authorities stated Jamal was the leader of a "spiritual cult" called the University of Cosmic Intelligence, whose followers would often quit their jobs, disconnect from their phones and social media accounts, and go "off the grid."

Jamal says it isn't a cult but only a YouTube channel with 200,000 subscribers, and that he doesn't know any of the missing persons. In the YouTube videos, Jamal shared his belief that black and Hispanic people are gods and goddesses and people of other races are aliens, that elite families including presidents are "reptilian shapeshifters", and the weather is being controlled by machines disguised as "5G towers."

There has been no indication of any of the missing six people's whereabouts since their sighting at the hotel in Florissant. Investigators believe they may be in Mexico, on an island in the Gulf of Mexico, or in Atlanta, Georgia. Their disappearances remain unsolved.