Police arrested Wheeler-Weaver 10 days later. Its discovery provided more clues.Īnd it was Daley and her friends who ultimately found Butler's online connection with LilYachtRock and then concocted a fake profile on Tagged that drew him in. Another friend was the first to find the minivan, which Wheeler-Weaver had abandoned behind an old factory. A family friend in public relations worked media connections to spread the word. With Sarah missing, others in the community mobilized. The friends shared everything, even passwords. How she, Daley and another friend, distraught after Sarah's disappearance, had logged into Butler's computer looking for clues. It’s so sad that you didn’t get to know her.”Īt the trial, Brown told the jury how the two talked “every day, all day” how Sarah loved to style her hair using a red weave. She loved to dance, she loved to swim, she loved kids. “She was such a good girl,” Lavern Butler said. “I know my daughter and the love and care she grew up with.
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LaMia Brown looks at a hair extension worn by Sarah Butler on during Khalil Wheeler-Weaver's trial in Essex County Court on Oct. “I can close my eyes and recall how bright her face was,” said one of Butler's professors, Yasmeen Chism. In the fall of 2016, Butler was a sophomore at New Jersey City University, the first in her family to attend college. “When I said, ‘How can you bartend? You’re not even 21,’ Sarah told me, ‘I’m just going to be ready, Miss Shirlise.' ” She worked as a lifeguard, babysat and paid her own way through bartending classes, though she was too young to actually work in a bar, recalled Shirlise McKinley-Wiggins, the dance school’s founder. Her enthusiasm extended beyond the dance studio. "Even when we were just hanging out, Sarah would be over in the corner, twirling around." Her friend Sophia Nigro, 18, recalled fun sleepovers at the Butlers', where Sarah did her makeup and taught her dance steps. Sarah Butler with the used car she bought before her freshman year of college. She led the Montclair High School dance team and the traveling troupe at Premiere Dance Theatre, winning the dance school's scholarship and finishing third at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Sarah was the bubbly, driven middle child. Despite having grown up surrounded by water in Jamaica, she had never learned to swim. The Butler girls took dance and swim lessons, and eventually worked as lifeguards at the Montclair YMCA, a point of pride for Lavern.
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In his free time, Victor worked on his golf swing at the public course in nearby Belleville. Evenings, Lavern cooked dinner while Victor, a teetotaler, mixed cocktails at the Glen Ridge Country Club, where stock analysts and bond traders unwound after their train rides home from Wall Street. Lavern worked days, looking after children more privileged than hers, while Victor got their girls to school and activities. Their three daughters, Bassania, Sarah and Aliyah, did well in school, and the family had a close community centered around their church. The Butlers' rent went up, too, but the family stayed. Coffee shops and apartment buildings with rooftop lounges rose in the South End.
The neighborhood had begun to gentrify since the opening of a new, 30-minute direct train service into Manhattan. The wide lawns and mansions of Upper Montclair seemed farther away, but South End still offered access to the same good school system. Ali during the trial of Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, who is charged in the death of their daugter Sarah Butler, 20, of Montclair, photographed in Essex County Superior Court in Newark, NJ on 10/31/19. Parents of Sarah Butler, Victor Butler and Lavern Butler are seen in the court room of Judge Mark S. The Butlers moved to Montclair two decades ago, seeking better opportunities for their three daughters in the racially and economically diverse suburb just west of Newark. The small, simple houses in their 4th Ward neighborhood had more in common with neighboring Orange, the working-class, mostly African-American town where Wheeler-Weaver grew up. Targeting Butler was the killer's "fatal mistake," Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Adam Wells said during the trial. The three other victims - two murdered and one who narrowly escaped - were all sex workers, women on the margins of society, often dismissed by those in authority. Butler, a 20-year-old college student, came from a stable, two-parent household and a community in Montclair that swung into action when she disappeared. "He messed with the wrong girl,” Lavern Butler said at a news conference in December, after a jury declared Wheeler-Weaver guilty. “Sarah was well-loved.” From left, Aliyah Butler, Bassania Daley and Sarah Butler. Sarah Butler and her sisters at her Sweet Sixteen party.
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