Mother allegedly murders 3-year-old daughter and stuffs body in duffel bag before calling 911 and claiming the girl had gone missing
The Clark County Coroner identified the three-year-old girl whose body was found inside a duffle bag at an east Las Vegas apartment on August 23 as Dejah Amara Hunt
Law enforcement authorities have reported the arrest of a woman in Las Vegas who claimed her daughter had wandered off, before the girl's body was found in a duffel bag in her bedroom closet.
On Friday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department revealed in a statement that the incident came to light on August 23 just before 10 pm, when officers arrived at the scene to investigate a report of a missing three-year-old girl.
According to authorities, Aisha Thomas, the mother of the child, told responding officers that she was walking into an Albertsons near East Lake Mead and Hollywood boulevards at around 9 pm with her four kids when "the three-year-old wandered off while she was talking with someone else."