Authorities Investigate After One Month-Old Boy Passes Away
One of the twin boys involved in a recent Amber Alert in Ohio has died, authorities confirmed on Sunday. Last month, Ky’air Thomas and his twin brother, Kason, were discovered alive after a woman allegedly stole a car with the infants inside, according to NBC News.
The car was taken near a pizza restaurant in Columbus while their mother was picking up an order. An Amber Alert was issued to notify the public about the boys’ disappearance.
One of the twins was located in a car seat between two vehicles in a parking lot close to Dayton International Airport, approximately 70 miles west of Columbus. Meanwhile, police in Indianapolis found Kason in an abandoned vehicle that had been stolen three days earlier in Columbus.
The boys were subsequently returned to their mother. However, on Saturday night, Columbus police responded to a report of an infant not breathing at a home around 11pm. Paramedics transported the six-month-old to Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later. Authorities stated they are “actively investigating” the circumstances surrounding the incident. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday, as reported by CBS Columbus affiliate WBNS-TV, but no further details about the child’s death have been released.
Following the twins’ abduction last month, 24-year-old Nalah Tamiko Jackson was arrested on kidnapping charges. She was later indicted on two federal counts of kidnapping of a minor and appeared in federal court in Columbus a week ago, where she did not enter a plea.
