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Jmaal Keyes Update: Human remains found in the search for missing Ga. college student

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(CBS/WAOK) ATLANTA, Ga.-- Investigators found human remains on Friday during their search for missing Middle Georgia State College freshman Jmaal Malik Keyes, according to CBS affiliate WAOK.

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation told the station that the evidence was collected in Hawkinsville, about 115 miles south east of Atlanta. It was gathered near the home of a 17-year-old murder suspect.

Police found the remains after searching the area where a building burned around the time Keyes disappeared, reported WAOK.

Keyes,19, was last seen on the Middle Georgia State campus in Cochran, GA on April 25.

GBI agents told the station that DNA testing will be done on the remains to determine if they are that of Keyes

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