Candle-lit vigil scheduled for Atlanta boy found dead in suitcase

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta Information First) – A candle-lit vigil is scheduled on Sunday night for an Atlanta boy who was lately discovered lifeless in a suitcase.

A nationwide search is underway for an Atlanta mom charged after her son was discovered lifeless in a suitcase.

Investigators mentioned proof gathered on the scene in the end led them to positively establish the boy as Cairo Jordan. The boy died of electrolyte imbalance. It’s when an individual loses numerous physique fluids. He would have celebrated his sixth birthday this week.

The vigil will likely be held at 5162 Kingston Ct. in Union Metropolis at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Based on the official flyer for the vigil, individuals are welcome to “carry candles, flowers, bears, and so on.”

In April, officers say a mushroom farmer found a boy’s physique stuffed inside a suitcase in rural southern Indiana, about 400 miles from Atlanta. Police spent months accumulating suggestions and making an attempt to establish the boy.

“No members of the family, witnesses, or acquaintances got here ahead to establish the boy or present any data,” Indiana State Police wrote in a press launch on Wednesday. “Leads from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters additionally proved unsuccessful, in addition to suggestions referred to as in by most of the people.”

Cairo’s mom, 37-year-old Dejaune Ludie Anderson, of Atlanta, is now needed in connection along with his loss of life.

“I can’t even hardly comprehend this, you realize,” mentioned Mary Jane Jordan, Cario’s paternal great-grandmother.

Mary Jane mentioned she final noticed Cairo when he was about 11 months in the past. It was 2017 and proper across the starting of a custody battle between Anderson and Cairo’s father.

“You understand how you suppose it’s going to chill off and return to regular, however by no means heard from her once more,” she mentioned. “She blocked our quantity. All of us, no person. She wasn’t going to be bothered with us interval no extra.”

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