More than one fans of social media spirituality influencer vanish: police

FIRST ON FOX – Missouri police say a gaggle of six other people, together with two babies, who observe a well-liked on-line spirituality influencer, disappeared from the St. Louis house on Aug. 13, 2023. 

The Berkeley Police Division is in search of Mikayla Thompson, 25, of St. Louis; Naaman Williams, 30, of Washington, D.C.; Gerrielle German, 27, of Lake Horn, Mississippi; 2-year-old Ashton Williams of Lake Horn; Ma’Kayla Wickerson, 36, of St. Louis; and 3-year-old Malaiyah Wickerson of St. Louis. They disappeared from a condo house close to Lambert St. Louis Airport, police mentioned in a press liberate. 

“The investigation printed those people had turn out to be part of a non secular cult they usually observe the lessons of a person named Rashad Jamal (White). Rashad Jamal has tens of hundreds of fans throughout more than one social media platforms. It will have to be famous he was once not too long ago convicted of quite a lot of crimes within the State of Georgia and is serving a long jail sentence,” Berkeley police mentioned within the liberate.

The crowd was once ultimate observed on Aug. 13, 2023, at a High quality Inn Lodge at 55 Dunn Highway in Florissant, Missouri.

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The 4 lacking adults have something in commonplace, police advised Fox Information Virtual. All of them overtly observe Rashad Jamal White, a self-proclaimed “prophet” and rapper who created The College of Cosmic Intelligence — a web based non secular team with hundreds of fans throughout the USA. Fox Information Virtual has reached out to The College of Cosmic Intelligence. 

A Barrow County pass judgement on sentenced Jamal to 18 years in jail in August 2023 after a jury discovered him to blame of kid molestation and cruelty to youngsters, consistent with court docket paperwork. On Aug. 25 of ultimate yr, Jamal filed a movement for a brand new trial, mentioning “the State’s failure to end up guilt past an affordable doubt.”

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He has just about 190,000 fans on TikTok, greater than 10,000 fans on X and 90,000 fans on Instagram, the place he stocks movies expressing his ideals that persons are “avatars,” birds are government-operated drones used to undercover agent on civilians, Arizona is a gateway to Africa and the Mississippi River is in truth the Nile River, amongst different claims.

Rashad Jamal has just about 190,000 fans on TikTok, greater than 10,000 fans on X and 90,000 fans on Instagram. (TikTok)

“The one regulation I had damaged was once talking out towards oppression,” Jamal mentioned in a YouTube video posted ultimate week. “…The one factor I’m to blame of is releasing the minds of my other people and talking out towards the program, and I’m going to by no means go into reverse from that.”

Jamal’s team is “aimed at enlightening and illuminating the minds of the carbonated beings, a.okay.a. your so known as [sic] Black and Latino other people of Earth,” the college’s web page states. He preaches about “high-vibration” people who wish to connect to the Earth and their historic pasts as opposed to “low-vibration” people who make the sector a extra poisonous position.

“I’m a god, and all of my other people, the Black and Latino other people, are gods. And we had been made within the symbol of our author,” Jamal mentioned in a Would possibly 2022 video. “Due to this fact, I’m an extension of Her/Them, and I’m the author and destroyer of my truth, so I take complete duty for all occasions that I’ve skilled via this lifetime, for that is what we name shadow paintings within the religious realm.”

Rashad Jamal stocks movies expressing his ideals that persons are “avatars,” birds are government-operated drones used to undercover agent on civilians, Arizona is a gateway to Africa and the Mississippi River is in truth the Nile River, amongst different claims. (TikTok)

The College of Cosmic Intelligence web page additionally lists crystals, crystal necklaces, bracelets and different pieces on the market at atypical costs, similar to $333.33, $222 or $119.99. The college provides enrollment applications for lectures, weblog posts, movies and products for $333.33. Jamal may be requesting $9 donations to beef up his circle of relatives by the use of YouTube. 

Fox Information Virtual reported in 2022 that a number of of Jamal’s fans — together with Damien Winslow Washam, Krystal Diane Pinkins and Yasmine Hider — have been accused of 2 separate murders in Alabama. Washam was once discovered now not to blame of killing his mom with a sword via explanation why of madness. 

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Krystal Diane Pinkins, 36, left, and Yasmine Hider, 20, are charged with first-degree homicide within the Aug. 14 killing of 22-year-old Adam Simjee of Apopka, Florida, in addition to more than one counts of theft and kidnapping in Clay County, Alabama. (Clay County Sheriff’s Place of job)

Pinkins and Hider had been sentenced ultimate week for killing Adam Sinjee, a 22-year-old Florida faculty scholar who was once climbing along with his female friend within the Talladega Nationwide Woodland in Alabama when Pinkins and Hider staged a automotive breakdown and robbed them. 

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Pinkins and Hider have been dwelling “off the grid” within the Talladega Nationwide Woodland close to the crime scene and allegedly had connections to Jamal’s paintings via social media, as Motherboard reported in 2022.

Mikayla Paulus, the female friend of Adam Simjee, advised FOX 35 Orlando those footage of them had been taken about an hour ahead of the 2 had been held at gunpoint in a dangerous tried armed theft. (Mikayla Paulus)

After newsletter, a number of of Jamal’s fans reached out to Fox Information Virtual insisting upon his innocence, now not handiest with regards to the homicide instances, however in Jamal’s molestation case filed in Jackson County, as neatly. 

Now, Berkeley police are shining new mild on Jamal and The College of Cosmic Intelligence because it pertains to the disappearances of the six aforementioned other people, who originate from other states however met and lived in combination in St. Louis for a temporary duration ahead of they vanished. 

Neighbors reported seeing the gang of six, together with their youngsters, meditating bare within the backyard out of doors their condo house, police advised Fox Information Virtual.

Neighbors reported seeing the gang of six, together with their youngsters, meditating bare within the backyard out of doors their condo house, police advised Fox Information Virtual. (Berkeley Police Division)

“The extent of disconnect those cult individuals have demonstrated with pals and members of the family is unfathomable,” Berkeley police mentioned of their liberate. “We’ve got realized that equivalent cult individuals go back and forth at nice lengths to are living off the grid and stick with fellow cult individuals and that their financial standing does now not seem to be an element.”

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Police famous that “primary media retailers have reported on” Jamal and inspired the general public to “do an web seek on his title.”

The 4 lacking adults went via aliases that pay tribute to sure gods and goddesses — a commonplace theme amongst lots of Jamal’s fans.

Naaman Williams known as himself Anubis Aramean. (Berkeley Police Division)

Thompson known as herself Antu Anum Ahmat, Williams known as himself Anubis Aramean and Wickerson known as herself Intuahma Aquama Auntil, consistent with police.

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Different behaviors that Jamal’s fans showcase, consistent with police, come with being very lively on social media in beef up of Jamal and The College of Cosmic Intelligence, a “general disconnection” from friends and family, quitting jobs, dwelling off of bank cards, going off the grid and disconnecting from telephones, embracing sovereign citizenship, polygamy and extra. 

Government are asking any person with details about the whereabouts of those lacking people to touch the Berkeley Police Division in Missouri or their native regulation enforcement workplace.