A 28-year-old woman has been arrested after police found her 6-year-old son’s body in the trunk of her bloodied car in a Minneapolis suburb, authorities and family members said.
Orono police said the woman and a man were arrested on suspicion of murder after the boy’s body was found Friday following a report of a car with a smashed back window driving on a flat tire.
When officers stopped the car in Mound, Minnesota, they noticed blood inside the vehicle. Police have not yet released details about the boy or the circumstances of the his death.
The man and woman had not been formally charged as of Sunday. Read more: Mother arrested after shooting two sons, 9 and 13, before attacking neighbour Family members said the boy’s father had been trying to win custody at the time of his death.