The kid’s mom, Darrian Randle, 31, has been taken into custody and charged with felony false reporting, based on native Fox affiliate WTTG. Police additionally confirmed on Wednesday {that a} physique was present in connection to this case and they’re awaiting constructive identification.

Officers responded to a report of a attainable kidnapping at round 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, per a press launch from the Maryland State Police. Randle detailed a harrowing incident of being approached by a white man, who took her daughter at gunpoint.

In response to Randle, she had pulled over to the aspect of the highway as a way to consolation her daughter. Whereas she was pulled over, she stated the person approached them at gunpoint and took Dinkins.

She then described the car he purportedly fled the scene in, detailing a dark-colored SUV pushed by a white feminine confederate.

In response, police in Delaware instantly issued an Amber Alert and commenced conducting an intensive search involving the New Citadel County Division of Police Felony Investigations Unit and the FBI, which carried over the evening and into the subsequent morning. All of the whereas, police would later decide, there was no abduction.

In an up to date press launch from the New Citadel County Police, the Amber Alert was canceled after the continuing investigation “decided the preliminary account of the incident given by the mom was false.”

The discharge went on to notice that the investigation has “sadly” transitioned right into a murder investigation by the Maryland State Police, with their detectives working intently alongside them and the FBI as they proceed to uncover the reality about what occurred.

The Maryland State Police then adopted with an replace on the case, posted to Fb, the place it was said that “a physique has been recovered in Cecil County.”

Randle is now being charged with first- and second-degree homicide, first-degree little one abuse ensuing within the demise of a minor below 13, submitting a false police report in Delaware, and different associated prison prices, based on ABC affiliate WPVI’s reporting on a information convention in regards to the case on Wednesday evening.

One other man, Cedric Britten, 44, was additionally charged in relation to the case. Police say he’s Randle’s boyfriend and has been charged with accent to first- and second-degree homicide after the actual fact, failure to report little one demise, and different associated offenses. He’s in police custody in Maryland.

In her admission to police that she had lied, Randle allegedly informed them she had falsely reported her daughter kidnapped to “divert consideration from her boyfriend,” based on a prison criticism reviewed by WPVI.

The information outlet states that the physique recovered was present in a vacant lot, and whereas it has not been formally decided to be Dinkins, the stays are “in line with that of a kid,” per authorities. An post-mortem is being performed by the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore.

Elena Russo, a Maryland State Police spokesperson, stated on the information convention, “Our murder unit investigators had sufficient info gleaned by way of the investigation that related these two people with the disappearance of this 3-year-old.”

Randle is presently being held on a $1 million money bond and is awaiting extradition to Cecil County.