It’s been a year since police officers found an abandoned infant in the 3000 block of Channing Street Northeast, but detectives have yet to locate a suspect in what was ruled homicide by hypothermia when the child died.
On Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the child’s death, MPD issued a news release again seeking the public’s help in the case. A photo of the towel the child was wrapped in has been released in hopes that it may lead to information about the baby.
The full press release is after the jump:
(Washington, DC)-Today marks the one year anniversary of the homicide of an unidentified black female infant. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Victims Unit are continuing to investigate the homicide of an unidentified black female infant in the 3000 block of Channing Street, NE. The infant was wrapped in a towel with multi-colored stripes. The towel is pictured below.
On Sunday, January 15, 2012, at approximately 11:34 pm, units from the Fifth District and personnel from DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the 3000 block of Channing Street, NE to investigate the report of an unconscious infant. Upon their arrival, they observed a resident at that location performing CPR on an unconscious infant. Personnel from DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services transported the infant to Children’s National Medical Center, where the infant was pronounced dead at 2:21 am on Monday, January 16, 2012. The cause and manner of the child’s death has been ruled a homicide by hypothermia.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that a resident in the 3000 block of Channing Street, NE was walking home when he observed the infant wrapped in a towel on a step of another residence in the same block. The resident and another witness determined that the infant was cold and unconscious, and brought the infant into their home and called 911.
