The lifeless body of a little boy was found on March 31 in the mouth of an alligator in Florida, United States. His father, suspected of having thrown him there after killing the mother, was arrested by the police.
He had been missing since the day before. A 2-year-old child was found dead on March 31, trapped in the mouth of an alligator, in Florida in the United States. According to the authorities, the father, suspected of having thrown his son there, was charged with two counts of murder, including that of his wife.
The St Petersburg Police Department said Taylen Mosley was found in Lake Maggiore (west) and her father, 21-year-old Thomas Mosley, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the death of his young son and his wife, Pashun Jeffery.
A major mobilization of the authorities
As of Thursday, the date on which the latter was found stabbed to death in her apartment, searches had been organized by local, state and federal authorities to find the child as quickly as possible, in addition to diving teams and agents. using drones.
Indeed, Jeffery and his son were last seen by family members around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. Police said around 8:30 p.m. neighbors heard a loud noise near their apartment, without contacting authorities. It was Pashun Jeffery’s mother, worried about not hearing from her daughter the next day, who reported them missing.
However, while searching for the boy in the Dell Holmes Park recreation area and Lake Maggiore, detectives saw an alligator, with something in its mouth. When they realized it was the body of a child, they shot the animal and killed it.
“As the detectives closed in, they fired a bullet at the alligator, which dropped the object and we were able to recover Taylen’s body intact,” Police Chief Anthony Holloway said during the interview. a press conference Friday evening, broadcast by the television station Spectrum Bay News 9, in the Tampa Bay area. “We’re sorry it ended like this,” he added.
Investigators are now waiting for the medical examiner to examine Taylen Mosley’s body to determine the cause of death.