Jholie’s Story

Jholie Moussa was a 16-year-old African American female who went missing from her Alexandria, Virginia home on Friday, January 12, 2018. Fairfax Country Police Department was notified that Jholie was missing on Saturday, January 13, 2018 and provided vital information regarding her character and a former violent ex-boyfriend. Jholie told her identical twin sister, Zhané, she would be “right back.”  Zhané, received a text message a few hours later stating that Jholie was going to a party in Norfolk, Virginia.  This was strange as Jholie was not dressed for a party upon her departure. She did not take a change of clothes. Her cell phone’s battery was low and she left home without her cell phone charger. These are not the habits of a 16-year-old girl in today’s society.

The family disclosed important information to Fairfax County Police Department regarding previous altercations with Jholie’s ex-boyfriend, Nebiyu Ebrahim. There was a no contact order against her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend admitted to violating this order when he choked her two weeks prior to her disappearance. The family was told by one of the Officers, that Jholie was not in imminent danger because this altercation took place two weeks prior and that her disappearance did not seem relevant and thereby she would be labeled a runaway.  The Officer stated we would be better off searching for her ourselves. The idea that Jholie had a violent ex-boyfriend whom had choked her until she passed out and upon her coming too she heard him make a call that discussed hiding a dead body, which would suggest that SHE was in imminent danger.  Nonetheless, Fairfax County Police Department decoded the information to suggest she was not in imminent danger.  They believed the information provided was irrelevant and continued to label her as a runaway although she vanished and left no trail, social media or otherwise. More importantly Fairfax County Police Department did not take this case seriously. Fairfax County Police Department continuously insisted that Jholie was a runaway, because she walked out of her home willingly. Our family acknowledged that she did leave her home willingly, with every intention of coming back home immediately.  Jholie would have never runaway and she definitely would not have elected voluntarily not to contact her identical twin sister, Zhané.  A 13-year-old boy acknowledged that an older unknown African American male asked to use his cell phone to place a call to Jholie, yet the Fairfax Police Department still did not believe her to be in imminent danger. Was this person attempting to stay under the radar? Did he plan to take her? These were things we as a family were unaware happened and things that the Fairfax Police Department just did not seem interested in investigating. Our State Delegate requested that the Fairfax County Police Department at least provide us with the last known IP address of her cellular phone and they did.

Friday, January 26, 2018, two weeks after Jholie went missing, she was found murdered in Woodlawn Park, less than one mile from Jholie’s Alexandria, Virginia home.