PRINCE WILLIAM POLICE UPDATE, JUNE 12, 9 a.m. - Kyle Benjamin Coleman, 19, of Gainesville, who was reported as missing and upgraded to endangered on Sunday, June 8, was located deceased in Fairfax County.
Overnight, Fairfax County police confirmed the identity of the body found in a retention pond in their jurisdiction on Tuesday, June 10. The Fairfax County Police Department will lead the investigation into Kyle’s death.
Kyle Coleman graduated from Battlefield High School in Haymarket in 2024. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga.
Fairfax County Police have made public further information, which is detailed below.
Fairfax County Police (McLean District) – Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a missing Prince William County man in Tysons.
Friday, June 6 at 11:16 p.m., FCPD officers and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department responded to Galleria Drive and Tysons Boulevard for a 911 activation call from an iPhone. Upon arriving at the scene, officers located an unoccupied 2019 blue Toyota Yaris in the tree line near the roadway.
The crash investigation revealed that the 2019 Toyota Yaris was traveling westbound on Galleria Drive, crossed into the eastbound lanes, left the roadway onto the grass, and struck a tree. Witnesses on the scene stated they saw an individual flee from the vehicle and may have left the scene in another vehicle immediately following the crash.
Officers searched the vehicle and the surrounding area and did not locate any occupants involved in the crash or any evidence of foul play. The Fire and Rescue Department utilized thermal imaging technology in the area for any involved persons, which yielded no results.
Saturday afternoon, June 7, the day after the crash, the Prince William County Police Department [PWCPD] received a missing person’s report for Kyle Coleman, 19, of Gainesville. Sunday, June 8, after receiving a video depicting Coleman before the crash, PWCPD upgraded the case to Critically Endangered Missing.
Monday, June 9, PWCPD disseminated Coleman’s missing person’s bulletin. Within minutes of receiving this bulletin, FCPD detectives linked the June 6 crash to Coleman and contacted PWCPD to coordinate and assist in the investigation.
Detectives immediately began pursuing all leads, including checking area hospitals and jails, FLOCK license plate readers and utilizing K9 to search the surrounding area. The initial day’s search did not yield any results.
Continuing into Tuesday, June 10, FCPD deployed resources in and around the area to include Fairfax County's Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) to coordinate technology-based investigative efforts; its Tysons Urban Team to conduct ground-level canvassing of urban areas; a Search and Rescue Team to conduct detailed grid searches on foot through nearby wooded areas and open spaces; a Drone Unit to conduct an aerial search and provide real-time aerial imagery to ground teams, and its Underwater Search and Recovery Unit to search nearby retention ponds and water features.
While conducting this search, our Underwater Search and Recovery Unit was able to eventually locate Coleman deceased, submerged in a nearby retention pond surrounded by thick brush. Through the review of subsequent surveillance footage depicting Coleman leaving the crash scene, detectives were able to confirm that no one else was involved in the crash.
Detectives are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to call our Criminal Investigation Division at 703-256-8035. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Solvers by phone – 1-866-411-TIPS (866-411-8477), and by web – Click HERE. Download the ‘P3 Tips’ App “Fairfax Co Crime Solvers.” Anonymous tipsters are eligible for cash rewards. Please leave contact information if you wish for a detective to follow up with you.
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PRINCE WILLIAM PD, JUNE 10, 9 p.m.- Fairfax County police late this afternoon recovered a body from a pond in Tysons, not far from where a 19-year-old Gainesville college student went missing Friday, June 6, after a car crash.
In a social media post, police said dive team members recovered the remains from a small body of water near Westpark and Galleria drives. A death investigation is underway.
Fairfax police said they have been working closely with Prince William County police in the search for Kyle Benjamin Coleman, a Battlefield High School graduate who disappeared after the crash early Saturday. Coleman has just completed his freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Coleman's cell phone alerted police to the crash in the area of Tysons Blvd. and Galleria Drive around 12:15 a.m., June 7, but when officers arrived, they couldn't find him.
Fairfax police said over the last three days, the department deployed detectives, officers, drones, the police helicopter, forensics officers, K9s, and search-and-rescue teams in the search for Coleman.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Prince William County police at 703-792-6500 or your local police department.
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