Police searching for woman who left gas station where infant girl was found dead in a toilet
"I'd like to let her know that we just want to talk to her," police said. "It's tragic that it's played out the way that it has."
lawandcrime.com
Police in Texas hope just-released surveillance footage will help their monthslong investigation into a dead infant found earlier this year.
The grim discovery was made at a southwest Houston gas station on South Post Oak Road by a customer just before 4:30 a.m. on April 2.
The infant was found in a toilet in a bathroom, police said. The child was dead by the time Houston Fire Department paramedics arrived.
On Monday, police said that the woman in the video was in the restroom for “about 15 minutes” before she left and that the baby was found roughly an hour after she had left – stressing that the incident occurred during the early morning hours on a Sunday when there was not much foot traffic inside the gas station.
“No one else went inside that bathroom, and [the newborn] was not there when she walked in before,” HPD Homicide Detective Calab Bowling said during a press conference on Monday. He said the footage and witness statements supported that understanding of events.
During the press conference, Browning identified the infant as a baby girl and identified the woman as a “Hispanic female.”
