Mujey Dumbuya, 16, (at left) was found dead in a Kalamazoo woods three days after her family last saw her. Now, Quinn Anthony James, 42, (at right) is a person of interest in her death. (WWMT/Contributed) 
 
 The latest court documents uncovered by Newschannel 3 show Quinn James was notified Jan. 23 that the case against him was moving forward and a trial date had been set. 
 
 The next day, Mujey Dumbuya disappeared, her body was found Jan. 28, in the woods in Kalamazoo’s West Douglas neighborhood, roughly 50 miles from her home in Grand Rapids. 
 
 Several sources say James is a person of interest in the murder of Dumbuya, who accused him of rape in 2017. That case was set to go to trial in April, court papers show. 
 
 Charged with four counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, on top of a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years as fourth time, repeat offender, James pleaded not guilty in November and was released on a $100,000 bond. 
 
 The conditions of his bond said James had to stay away from drugs, alcohol, firearms, weapons and Dumbuya. He was not allowed to contact Dumbuya, court records show, but James was not required to wear a monitoring device to track his whereabouts. 
 
 Court officials told Newschannel 3 that under those conditions, it’s up to the victim or accuse to notify police that a defendant out on bond violated the release agreement. 
 
 Another teenage girl told investigators she thought she was going to die during a rape reported to the Kent County Sheriff's Office in 2014. 
 
 Like Dumbuya, the 2014 accuser knew and named James as her attacker but James was never charged. Investigators say the Kent County Prosecutor declined to press changes because of a lack of evidence, then James was arrested on charges related to that case last week, nearly four years after the rape was reported. 
 
 It’s unclear what changed and why James was arrested, Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker told Newschannel 3 Thursday he cannot comment the facts of an ongoing case. 
 
 James is now being held on a $500,000 bond at the Kent County Jail on one court of criminal sexual conduct, not related to Dumbuya's murder. 
 
 The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety continues to look for suspects in the homicide investigation as they work to determined what happened in the four days Dumbuya was missing and how she got to Kalamazoo. ||||| by John McNeill 
 
 Mujey Dumbaya,16, Her cause of death has not been released by investigators. (photo supplied by KDPS) 
 
 Quinn Anthony James,42, is being held in the Kent County Jail for a 2014 CSC charge. (mugshot supplied by Kent County Sheriffs Office) 
 
 KENTWOOD (WKZO AM/FM) -- Various sources are reporting that investigators have a person of interest in the Murder of 16-year-old Mujey Dumbaya, the Grand Rapids teen who was found dead in Kalamazoo’s West Douglas neighborhood late last month. 
 
 They are holding Quinn Anthony James, a former grounds worker at East Kentwood High where the teen went to school, who was reported to be the uncle of her boyfriend. 
 
 He is being held on an unrelated rape charge from 2014. 
 
 Dumbaya accused James of raping her last year, when she was just 15, and she was scheduled to testify against him in April on three counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct. Because James is a repeat offender, he would have spent a lot of time in prison if convicted. 
 
 That gives James a motive, but it takes much more than that to get a conviction and detectives are trying to see if the dots connect. 
 
 The 42-year-old suspect is being held on half-a-million dollars bond on that earlier rape charge, which also reportedly involves a teen victim and was investigated by Wyoming Police. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
 
 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The Kent County Prosecutor's Office says a 16-year-old girl who was found dead in Kalamazoo last week was the victim in a sex assault case that was set to go to trial later this year. 
 
 Mujey Dumbuya was found dead Jan. 28 in a wooded area in Kalamazoo's West Douglas neighborhood. Her body was found four days after she was reported missing by family members in Grand Rapids. A funeral for Mujey will be held Saturday at Christian Reformed Church off Eastern Avenue. 
 
 The prosecutor's office says 42-year-old Quinn Anthony James is the suspect in a sex assault case in which Dumbuya was the victim. James is currently in custody in Kent County on a separate charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct as well as assault with intent to do great bodily harm. 
 
 Authorities say a 'no contact' order was in place between James and Dumbuya as that case moved forward. 
 
 Kentwood Public Schools issued a statement Wednesday confirming James had been an employee with the district and had been accused of assault by a student in the summer of 2017. He was later fired. 
 
 Here is the full statement from the district: ||||| 
 
 
 
 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man accused of raping a 16-year-old East Kentwood High School student who was later found dead had a felony record when he was hired by the district, and school officials knew about it. 
 
 When Quinn James was hired as a groundskeeper by Kentwood Public Schools six years ago, his criminal record included convictions for a 1991 armed robbery in Grand Rapids and two counts of prisoner in possession of a weapon from 2003. Despite the record, Kentwood Public Schools Superintendent Michael Zoerhoff said in an email that “James was hired because he fit the qualifications for working as a groundskeeper.” 
 
 Zoerhoff said James brought strong references from community members when he applied for the position, which did not include interaction with students. James focused on delivering documents and caring for the grounds and facilities. 
 
 Then, last year, James was charged with raping Mujey Dumbuya, who was 15 at the time. There were allegedly four sexual assaults at locations in Wyoming, Kentwood and Grand Rapids. Police say James admitted to what he called “consensual” sex with the girl at his home on McKee Avenue SW in Wyoming. 
 
 Zoerhoff said James did not meet Dumbuya because of his work for the district. Rather, they met during summer break through social media, which was facilitated by a high school student from Saginaw. 
 
 As soon as the district learned of the charges against James, the superintendent says, he was fired and the school worked with authorities to bring charges against him. 
 
 >>PDF: Feb. 8 letter from district to parents 
 
 James would have gone to trial in April. Dumbuya was set to testify against him. 
 
 He was free on a $100,000 bond when Dumbuya went missing Jan. 24. Her body was found in Kalamazoo Jan. 28, and James was arrested again on Feb. 1 on an unrelated 2014 criminal sexual conduct charge. 
 
 The Kent County Prosecutor’s Office had not tried James in the 2014 case because there wasn’t enough evidence. The alleged victim in that case says he raped her in the apartment where he used to live and threatened to kill her, choking her until she stopped struggling. On Thursday, Kent County Prosecutor Chis Becker would not say what had changed that made the 2014 case viable now. 
 
 James, 42, remains in jail charged as four-time felony offender. He is being held on a $500,000 bond. 
 
 Kalamazoo police said Wednesday he was not being considered a person of interest in Dumbuya’s murder, but that investigators were taking a hard look at him. 
 
 Dumbaya’s family has hired attorney Christine Yared, who is in the process of investigating the school’s response to this situation. 
 
 The family was too heartbroken to talk about her on camera Thursday, but they did release this statement: 
 
 “We are heartbroken, devastated and overwhelmed with grief over the death of our beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece and cousin. “Mujey was a generous, energetic young woman with a radiant smile and an adventurous spirit. “Mujey was a very good student who loved school. She had a close circle of friends, and was loved by everyone that knew her. Mujey loved music and dancing. She took classes in dance, martial arts and archery. Mujey was looking forward to graduating from high school next year. She wanted to be a police officer to help fight against social injustice, including racism. “We ask that everyone, including those in the media, respect our request for privacy as we mourn Mujey’s death. We also ask that the media refrain from publishing photographs and video of the children in our family. Their safety and sense of security is our most urgent concern. Thank you.” 
 
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 ||||| Mujey Dumbuya, 16, (at left) was found dead in a Kalamazoo woods three days after her family last saw her. Now, Quinn Anthony James, 42, (at right) is a person of interest in her death. (WWMT/Contributed) 
 
 The East Kentwood High School student found killed in the woods in Kalamazoo’s West Douglas neighborhood was set to testify in a rape trial scheduled for April. 
 
 Now, multiple sources tell Newschannel 3, the defendant in that trial, Quinn Anthony James, is a person of interest in Mujey Dumbuya’s death. 
 
 It was Dumbuya who accused James of raping her. 
 
 Court records reveal that James, 42, has an extensive criminal history and was scheduled to be tried as a habitual offender. Court records also show that James had been ordered to stay away from Dumbuya, who was 16 when she died. 
 
 Found on Jan. 28 by a couple out for a Sunday walk, Dumbuya's death was immediately called suspicious by Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety investigators. Two days later, police were able to identify her as the 16-year-old East Kentwood student whose family last saw her Jan. 25. Once Dumbuya was identified, friends and family said they believed she had been attacked, and investigators began the effort of determining how she died, and how she ended up so far from home. 
 
 Because her killing is an ongoing investigation, Kalamazoo police are declining to comment on the case but court records outline some of the events that lead to the rape charges. 
 
 Dumbuya told police she was raped in a car in a school parking lot. Just before it happened, Dumbuya said, her attacker told her: "There is something about you. I could stop, but I just can't." 
 
 She identified the man as Quinn James. She accused him of forcing her to have sex multiple times and in various locations starting when she was 15. 
 
 Arrested in November, court records show, James admitted that he had sex with the teenage girl inside his car parked outside Ridge Park Charter Academy in Grand Rapids, where his nephew, Dumbuya's boyfriend, was a student. James told investigators it was consensual. 
 
 Court papers reveal that James, a convicted felon, was working for the Kentwood Public Schools until the most recent rape allegation came to light in 2017. 
 
 And, last week, James was arrested at his home in Wyoming, Michigan, in connection with another rape case, one reported by another teenage girl in 2014. 
 
 James is now at the Kent County jail being held on a $500,000 bond on one count of criminal sexual conduct in a case unrelated to the homicide investigation in Kalamazoo. 
 
 
 
 For continuing, in-depth coverage of the investigation, stay tuned to Newschannel 3 and return to WWMT.com. 
 

– In November, 16-year-old Mujey Dumbuya told Michigan police that her boyfriend's uncle, a groundskeeper employed by her school district, raped her in a school parking lot in Grand Rapids. According to court documents viewed by WWMT, Dumbuya described the incident as the latest in a string of rapes that started when she was 15. Quinn James, 42, was fired, arrested, charged with four counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and released on bond on the condition that he avoid contact with Mujey, who was to testify against him at trial in April, reports BuzzFeed News. Mujey, however, disappeared on Jan. 24, the day after James learned of his trial date, per WWMT, and she was found dead in a wooded area 50 miles from home days later. James hasn't been charged, but WHTC and WWMT report that he is considered a person of interest in Mujey's death. On Feb. 1, he was arrested on suspicion of the 2014 rape of another teen, per WWMT. James now faces charges in that case including third-degree criminal sexual conduct and remains in custody, per WXMI and WOOD. He's previously been convicted of crimes including armed robbery and possession of a weapon while in prison. In her statements to police, Mujey said James preceded the November rape by saying, "There is something about you. I could stop, but I just can't." James reportedly admitted to investigators that he had sex with Mujey but said it was consensual.