MISSING HARLEM TEEN FOUND DEAD ON A SNOWBANK!

Detectives are investigating how a Harlem teen who dreamed of becoming a music teacher wound up dead in a snowbank outside a building in the Abraham Lincoln Houses, police said.

A passerby spotted the snow-covered body of Gregory Willis Jr., 17, on Sunday morning - four days after his family reported him missing to police, cops said.

Detectives don't know whether Willis jumped, fell or was thrown from the roof of a building close to his family's home in the same Harlem development, police said.

"We are distraught. We are devastated. We are shocked," his aunt, Shante Price, 32, told the Daily News. "It's just a mystery right now. What happened?"

There were no signs of trauma to his body beyond injuries sustained in the fall, a police source said. An initial autopsy was inconclusive. Toxicology tests are pending.

Willis, a senior at Celia Cruz High School of Music in the Bronx, was by all accounts a happy young man who enjoyed singing and playing the flute. His family said he was looking forward to heading to college in the fall.

Police said he was last seen about 4 p.m. Wednesday, leaving his family's home.

"The day he went missing, it looked like he, maybe, was going to the store and coming back. He left the TV on," said his grandmother, Joyce Fogg, 54, of the Bronx.

Fogg said Willis' mother began looking for him when he did not return home.

"She started getting worried," Fogg said, noting her grandson was a homebody who never skipped out of the house.

"He was a good boy. He would do anything his mother told him to do," she said. "He was always with his mother."

Fogg said that before her grandson's body was found, police told his worried mother that they couldn't search for him.

"They told her they couldn't look for him because he was over 16," the grandmother said.

His family posted flyers with his picture throughout the neighborhood, including in the lobby of the building at the center of the police investigation.

Detectives are reviewing surveillance cameras from that building - 2140 Madison Ave, cops said. They are speaking with residents to see if anyone saw something, and also checking to see if Willis left a suicide note.

His family said he simply wasn't the type to take his own life.

"He was never sad, and never showed any signs of being depressed," said his cousin, Kashinda Cabble, 37.

Relatives said Willis was born two months premature, weighing only 2 pounds and 10 ounces. He spent four months in the hospital before doctors would allow his mother to take him home.

"He came into this world wanting to live," said Price, his aunt, who scoffed at the notion he may have killed himself.

"He had too much going for himself. He was a happy kid."

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