CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – The search for a missing 6-month-old baby boy ended tragically when officers found his dead body at the Sharon Memorial Park cemetery in southeast Charlotte early Saturday morning.
The Matthews Police Department said Chi-Liam Cody Brown-Erickson and his mother, 30-year-old Tamara Jernel Brown, had been missing from the Gander Cove Lane area of Matthews since about 10:00 p.m. Thursday.
Awful update to this story: Matthews Police day Chi-Liam’s body was found at Sharon Memorial Park on Monroe Road at about 4 a.m. No word on how the baby died. CMPD’s homicide unit is investigating.
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Police reported Tamara Brown was arrested near Galleria Boulevard on Friday night for common law robbery and two counts of assault on a government official.
Prior to her arrest, police said she may be suffering from a mental health disability and was last seen walking in Uptown Charlotte around noon Friday.
Police say Chi-Liam Brown-Erickson was not with his mother when they arrested her Friday night at about 10:00 p.m.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety reported after the 30-year-old mother was located she refused “to state where the child is located.”
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