Overview

• APD Chief Harold Medina said he is arranging an outside review of the initial case after concerns over a hanging that police say was investigated last year.
• The Office of the Medical Investigator and APD concluded in 2024 that Jayvon Givan died by suicide and found no evidence of foul play.
• Givan was found Sept. 17, 2024 hanging by a chain outside a vacant business near Corrales Road and NM‑528, with a hospital bracelet from the prior day and a personal notebook at the scene.
• A missing‑person report filed by Givan’s sister on Oct. 1, 2025 led detectives to inform her of the 2024 death, after which social posts alleging a recent lynching spread and drew protesters to APD headquarters.
• Local outlets KOAT and KRQE published the police and missing‑person records, and APD says there is no separate criminal investigation based on the evidence reviewed.