Found Deceased AL - Timothy Williams, 20, Prichard, 16 Dec 2014

EIGHT MILE, Alabama -- The family of a 20-year-old man last seen in Gulf Village on Dec. 16 came together on Monday to plead for information in the man's disappearance and offer a $1,000 reward for information.

On Sunday the mother of Timothy Javon Williams, Shondra Hill, took to the streets in an attempt to locate someone with information on her son's sudden disappearance.

She and Williams are close. She said she often heard from him multiple times a day but has endured silence since his cousin dropped him off at Gulf Village in Prichard on Dec. 16.

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Family members haven't spoken to Williams since a cousin dropped him off in Gulf Village on Dec. 16. His mother, Shondra Hill, said the silence is highly unusual.

"I talk to him three or four times a day, so I know something's wrong," she said.

A $1,000 reward is being offered for information in Williams' disapperance. Family members said he went to Gulf Village to find 19-year-old Dewon Dewayne Jenkins, who was named a person of interest by Prichard police.

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A family member told Fox10News Saturday, the body found Friday in the woods is Timothy Williams.

Yesterday afternoon, Mobile police say a body was found in a wooded area on Shelton Beach Road Extension between Moffett Road and Bear Fork Roads. At that time, they would not say whether it was the missing man pending their investigation.

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Police notified the family late Friday, confirming that it is being investigated as a homicide, Maynard Whigham, Williams' uncle said in an interview Saturday.

"They haven't released the cause of death, but they did say that it was a homicide," Whigham said. "But the autopsy is being performed today. But beyond that they haven't given us any other information outside of that."

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