Malik Lassiter was 24 years old when he was reported missing from Bowling Green, Kentucky, on May 11, 2023. The available case information describes him as a Black man with shoulder-length dreadlocks, brown eyes, standing between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighing about 165 to 175 pounds. He also had a spider tattoo on his lower neck.
His disappearance began as a frightening absence from an ordinary day: Malik did not show up for work in Nashville, Tennessee, and concern grew quickly because that was not expected behavior for him. His family requested a welfare check at his residence on Russellville Road in Bowling Green after they could not account for him.
The last known contact with Malik was in the early morning hours of May 11, 2023, at about 5:48 a.m. Just minutes later, his red 2013 Kia Optima was reportedly captured on surveillance at a Huck’s location. That short window became one of the most important known pieces of the timeline, because it placed his vehicle in public view shortly after the last known contact. By the early morning of May 12, 2023, the car had been recovered in Columbus, Ohio, far from Bowling Green and far from the route his loved ones expected his life to take that day. The recovery of the vehicle in another state deepened the concern around Malik’s disappearance and turned the search for him into a case with troubling unanswered questions.
As the investigation developed, public reporting later described the case not only as a missing person case, but as a suspected homicide. The Bowling Green Daily News reported that Daivon Thompson, of Louisville, was charged in Warren Circuit Court with murder, kidnapping, theft by unlawful taking, and two counts of tampering with physical evidence in connection with Malik’s death. Mayonna Anthony, of Georgetown, was also charged as a co-defendant with complicity counts related to murder, kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence, and theft by unlawful taking. Court reporting stated that Malik had been in a relationship with Anthony and had driven her home the night before he disappeared. These charges are part of the criminal court process, and the defendants were reported as having court proceedings still pending.
The case record indicates that Malik Lassiter was later determined to be deceased, meaning the missing person case is no longer active and is closed in that respect; the exact date he was located is not clear from the available information, so it should be treated as unknown. The public record leaves a painful story of a young man whose family first searched for him after he missed work, whose vehicle was found far from home, and whose disappearance later became the subject of homicide and kidnapping charges. In overview, Malik Lassiter’s case began on May 11, 2023, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after a missed workday and a welfare check request, moved through the discovery of his red Kia Optima in Columbus, Ohio, and ultimately shifted from a missing person investigation into a closed case in which he was found deceased while criminal proceedings continued for those accused in connection with his death.Last Seen: May 11, 2023
