Florida
Cause of death revealed for Florida tot found in alligator’s jaws
The Florida toddler who was found contained in the mouth of an alligator final month died by drowning following the brutal homicide of his mom, a medical expert has concluded.
St. Petersburg Police Division introduced Monday that an post-mortem by the Pinellas County Medical Examiner decided that 2-year-old Taylen Mosley had drowned, in line with the station WTSP.
The boy’s mother, 20-year-old Pashun Jeffrey, was discovered stabbed greater than 100 occasions within the rest room of her Lincoln Shores condominium on March 30 and her son was reported lacking.
A frantic seek for Taylen got here to a tragic conclusion the following day, when cops noticed his physique within the maw of an alligator in Lake Maggiore, positioned not removed from his house.
A cop fired a spherical on the reptile, inflicting it to drop the physique.
“We’re sorry that it needed to finish this manner,” police Chief Anthony Holloway stated on the time.
The tot’s father, 21-year-old Thomas Mosley, has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide within the deaths of his son and Jeffrey.
The suspect final appeared earlier than a choose Tuesday for a listening to about whether or not prosecutors might be allowed to acquire Mosley’s medical data from a hospital the place he sought remedy for extreme lacerations to his arms, reported the station Fox 13.
One other standing listening to within the case is scheduled for Could 5. Mosley is being held in jail with out bond.
In line with an affidavit, a bloody fingerprint on a cleansing bottle and a bloody Gucci shoeprint inside Jeffrey’s condominium linked Mosley to the crime scene.
Investigators stated Mosley stabbed Jeffrey simply hours after she threw a celebration to have fun his twenty first birthday.
He then allegedly grabbed his younger son, took him to the alligator-infested Lake Maggiore and both positioned or threw the tot within the water.
No motive has been revealed within the killings of the mother and son.