Who is Antonio Watts-Richardson? Last person to see Jennifer Brown alive denies involvement in her death
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: A tragic incident unfolded after Jennifer Brown, who was missing for nearly two weeks, was found dead and partially buried in a shallow grave in Royersford on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Police appear to be combing through a wooded area behind a warehouse along the 200 block of North 5th Street in Royersford where the woman's body was found.
Jennifer Brown of Limerick Township, Pennsylvania, was last seen alive on Tuesday, January 3, by her friend and business partner Antonio “Blair” Watts-Richardson. Watts-Richardson said he met Brown a day before she went missing and took her 8-year-old son Noah to his house for a sleepover that night. He claimed that since then, he had not been in contact with the now-deceased mother.
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Authorities continue searching for answers surrounding the disappearance of 43-year-old Jennifer Brown. Anyone with information is asked to contact Police or the Montgomery County District Attorney's office. We will have the latest tonight at 6:00 on @69News pic.twitter.com/yRpaBn3tLS
— Jack Reinhard (@JReinhardTV) January 7, 2023
Who is Antonio Watts-Richardson?
Antonio Watts-Richardson is reportedly the last person to have met Jennifer Brown. The two also had plans to open a new restaurant together. Watts-Richardson claimed after he took Brown's son for a sleepover and the mother never called that night to speak with him or check on her son. Brown was supposed to pick up Noah from a bus stop the next day (January 4) but she never arrived. “I put Noah on the bus the next day,” Watts-Richardson told 10 Philadelphia.
Watts-Richardson said he doesn't know what happened to Brown between January 3 and January 4. “I have nothing to do with anything,” Watts-Richardson said. “Just because I’m the last person to see her, that does not mean anything. It seems like I’m being the one poked at,” fumed Watts-Richardson said. “And it’s frustrating because I’m the first person that was the one calling the police, trying to kick down windows. Trying to find my friend. Trying to make sure her son is covered,” he added.
“She was a devoted mother of an 8-year-old boy, and by all accounts, she would have never left him unattended or unsupervised,” said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele. Brown's "vehicle was parked outside of her home, and her car keys, wallet, purse and work cell phone were found inside," the day she failed to pick up her son. Authorities also pointed out that Brown's personal phone was inactive and hadn't been started since Wednesday morning. Subsequently, her phone was not discovered when police found her body. “She is a doting, I call her, helicopter mom. She loves her son. She would never leave her son,” Tiffany Barron, Brown’s best friend, said.