SEP 17, 2019
Grandparents found after toddler discovered on stranger's porch; parents remain missing, police say
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Police said they found a burned car containing human remains about a mile from where Noelvin was discovered, but they stressed Tuesday that investigators were continuing work to identify the remains. Buffalo police Capt. Jeff Rinaldo said the car was so badly damaged by the flames that officers were unable to positively identify its make or model.
"We will not know the identities of the people found in the vehicle for quite some time," he said Tuesday at a news conference. Forensic anthropologists are assisting in the investigation.
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Family members
told WKBW-TV they last heard from the boy's parents, 24-year-old Nicole Mersed and 31-year-old Migel Valentin, on Sunday. Colon
told WIVB-TV she believes Noelvin was vacationing in Buffalo with his parents and a friend.
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According to WIVB-TV, Buffalo police found the vehicle about 6 p.m. Monday outside a Black Rock storage facility on Tonawanda Street.
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Homeowner LA told
WIVB that she spotted the child on her porch, curled up with a blanket in a box, about 8 a.m.
"I said, 'Where's your mommy, honey?'"
she told WKBW. "He said, 'The car's on fire.' That's all he kept saying."
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Grandmother of 3-year-old found on porch worries parents are dead after burned car discovered
A grandmother of the three-year-old boy who was found Monday sleeping in a box on a Potomac Avenue porch says she fears for the worst as police investigate.
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The fire, which police say burned extremely hot, and for a long time, probably began around 3 a.m. on Monday morning.
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“I had given him a car to make him a little more friendly. He enjoyed the car. he told me he has a sister. When I asked him what his mom’s name was, he said ‘Mommy.'”
She says he repeatedly referenced a burning car.
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