Missing boy, 9, found dead in Cane Avenue trench

Shaquan Gittens

A desperate three-day search for missing nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens came to a tragic end yesterday when his body, half naked and bound, was found in a trench running alongside a dam just off of Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt.

Gittens, of 2950 Well Road, North Ruimveldt, was clad only in the t-shirt he was last seen in and his hands were tied together with rope when his body