Baby reported missing in Chandler found dead in mother’s apartment
Oct 24, 2018, 3:12 PM | Updated: 5:30 pm
(Chandler Police Department Photo)
(Chandler Police Department Photo)
PHOENIX — A baby boy reported missing in Chandler on Wednesday was found dead in his teenage mother’s apartment, and she is the only suspect in his death, authorities said.
At around 1:30 p.m., the 19-year-old woman called 911 to report that an unknown suspect took her 4-week-old boy from Brooks Crossing Park near Alma School and Warner roads.
But the baby was later found dead by officers searching the woman’s apartment near Pecos and Dobson roads.
“We’re not believing the abduction story at all,” Sgt. Seth Tyler of the Chandler Police Department said during a press conference.
A 4-week-old baby boy was found dead in his mom’s apartment near Pecos and Dobson roads in Chandler. This is the car parked at a nearby park where the baby’s mom called police to report her son had been abducted. A car seat can been seen in the back seat of the car. @KTAR923 pic.twitter.com/Nu9RvgbCwM
— Griselda Zetino (@GriseldaZetino) October 25, 2018
Tyler said the woman, who is in custody, called 911 from the park and met responding officers there. She said an assailant put a bag over her head and took the baby while she was trying to put him in her vehicle.
After the call came in, the department mobilized all of its personnel, Tyler said.
“We had every asset that we could doing door-to-door searches,” he said.
Officers who went to the woman’s apartment found it unlocked. While searching inside, they found the infant.
No cause of death has been released. Tyler wouldn’t say where in the apartment the baby was located.
He said the woman and baby were the only occupants and didn’t have any information about the boy’s father.
