Nah’viah Lahsha Griffin was 17 years old when she was last known to have been in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 2, 2020. Public missing-person records identify her as a Black/African American female with black hair and brown eyes, listed at approximately 5 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 5 inches tall and about 170 to 175 pounds. She was entered in NamUs as missing person case MP76257, with the Jackson Police Department named as the investigating agency.
The available public details about the day Nah’viah disappeared are limited, but the information that has been released gives a small and meaningful picture of the circumstances known to investigators. She was last seen wearing a black pullover and black tights. The reporting party indicated that she had not been seen since July 2, 2020, and NamUs notes that she may have been headed toward Dallas, Texas, possibly with related family members.
Because so few confirmed details have been made public, the precise events leading up to her disappearance remain unclear. What is known is that a teenager from Jackson was suddenly no longer seen by those who expected to know where she was, and that concern was serious enough for her case to be documented in national missing-person records.
Nah’viah’s case was formally connected to the Jackson Police Department, with public case information listing Detective Sharon Jordan and the agency’s East Pascagoula Street office in Jackson as the law-enforcement contact. NamUs lists the agency case number as 2020-112203 and shows that the case was reported to the agency on August 3, 2020. That gap between the last known contact and the reported date leaves the public record with unanswered questions, including what efforts were made during the earliest period after she was last seen and what information may have led investigators to believe Dallas could be relevant. Still, the published record makes clear that law enforcement had a specific case file, a named detective, and a physical description intended to help identify Nah’viah if someone encountered her.
Public databases continue to preserve Nah’viah’s name and identifying details so that her case does not fade into a list of statistics. Uncovered lists her as missing from Jackson on July 2, 2020, at age 17, and ties the case to NamUs number MP76257. SpotCrime’s area missing-persons listing similarly summarizes the core identifiers: her name, her age at the time she went missing, Jackson as the last-seen location, the July 2, 2020 last-seen date, and her physical description. These repeated listings matter because missing-person cases often depend on recognition, memory, and the chance that someone who saw something years ago may later connect it to the right name.
There is no public resolution status in the information provided for Nah’viah’s case, and the publicly available sources reviewed do not establish that she has been found. The exact path she may have taken after she was last seen is unknown from the available record, and the detail about possible travel to Dallas remains framed only as a possibility. At its heart, this is the case of Nah’viah Lahsha Griffin, a 17-year-old girl from Jackson, Mississippi, last known to have been seen on July 2, 2020, wearing dark clothing, later listed in NamUs under MP76257, and associated with an investigation by the Jackson Police Department; the public record leaves a compassionate but incomplete overview of a young person’s disappearance, the concern of those who reported her missing, and the continuing need for credible information that could clarify what happened after she was last seen.Last Seen: Jul 2, 2020
