The dismembered remains of a toddler found in a Chicago lagoon were identified through DNA as that of a two-year-old northern Illinois boy reported missing in September, Chicago police said Wednesday. Kyrian Knox, 2, was reported missing more than two months ago.
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Kyrian was believed to have been last seen in mid-August, Rockford police previously said.
“What’ll happen now is, we will communicate these results to the Medical Examiner’s office”, he said. “This will be formally classified as a death investigation and we will work very hard to determine how Kyrian died and how he became dismembered and put into a lagoon in Chicago”.
Parts of a toddler’s body were found in a lagoon in Chicago park in early September.
The investigation remains open and ongoing, said Chicago police officer Veejay Zala. Lanisha Knox, Kyrian’s mother, says she left Kyrian with a few friends while she was moving to a new home, and was notified of his disappearance by police. Additional searches located a head and other remains.
Investigators believed the remains to be that of an African-American boy, but officials cautioned at the time that the body could be of a “mixed-race heritage” or even that of a girl.
Rockford police on Wednesday referred questions to Chicago police.
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“It’s a bad situation”, he said.
