Mikayla Miller, RIP
District Attorney Marion Ryan called it an “unspeakable tragedy”
7:30am, April 18, 2021 — A jogger encounters a young African American female hanging from a tree adjacent to a popular walking path at 34 West Main Street in Hopkinton, MA. The path borders Icehouse Pond, located in the Berry Acres Conservation Area. The decedent is identified as Mikayla Miller, age 16. She was a student at Hopkinton High School. Mikayla lived with her mother, Calvina Strothers, in the Freedom Way apartment complex nearby.
A subsequent press release by District Attorney Marion Ryan on May 4th, more than two weeks after her body was discovered, reveals that Mikayla’s backpack was found nearby, along with her computer and cell phone. Health data on her phone indicated that she had walked 1,316 steps during the hour preceding her death. This is the approximate distance from her home to the site of her death. Phone records indicate she called another female before leaving her home. There were no signs of struggle.
DA Ryan also noted that Hopkinton police had responded to an altercation involving Mikayla on the previous day. On April 17, at approximately 4pm, Mikayla had been involved in an altercation with four…
