NEW CLUE: Police have begun rechecking the statements of a neighbor who was reportedly the last person to see 4-year-old Gus Lamont before he vanished — and investigators say there’s now something strange about his timeline that doesn’t add up.
According to new reports, the man — identified only as a longtime resident living two houses away from the Lamont family — initially told police he saw Gus playing near the fence around 3:30 p.m., just minutes before the boy went missing. However, recently recovered doorbell camera footage from another home on the same street appears to contradict his statement.
The footage shows the neighbor’s truck leaving the street at 3:18 p.m., twelve minutes before he claimed to have seen Gus. When investigators confronted him with the discrepancy, he reportedly paused for several seconds before saying he “might have remembered the time wrong.”
But police sources say the inconsistencies don’t stop there. Cellular data shows the man’s phone was inactive between 3:10 and 4:05 p.m. that day — a gap investigators are calling “critical.”
One detective familiar with the case told reporters:
“It could be a simple mistake — or it could be the detail that changes everything.”
Neighbors have since described the man as quiet but watchful, noting he had previously spoken to Gus and his parents “a few times” and occasionally left small toys on their porch.
Authorities have not named him as a suspect, but forensic analysts are now reviewing soil samples taken from his truck’s tires to determine whether they match the mud found near Millstone Creek, where Gus’s remains were discovered.
Police emphasized that no one has been charged, but the timeline “remains under active review.”