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An intersection in Dyer County, Tenn., near where the infant was abandoned.WMC<\/p>\nAn infant was found abandoned Tuesday on a \u201crandom\u201d yard shortly before four of the child\u2019s relatives were discovered dead in a nearby county, authorities in Tennessee said.<\/p>\n
There have been no arrests, and authorities have provided few details about the deaths. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation, including efforts to identify and apprehend the suspect or suspects, remains active and ongoing,\u201d the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n
An intersection in Dyer County, Tenn., near where the infant was abandoned.WMC<\/p>\n
Nearly a dozen law enforcement agencies are assisting in the investigation, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force, the state bureau said.<\/p>\n
Neither federal agency immediately responded to requests for comment. <\/p>\n
A witness dialed 911 after seeing the baby in a car seat on “a random individual\u2019s front yard” in the Tigrett area, the Dyer County Sheriff’s Office said. Tigrett is nearly 80 miles north of Memphis. <\/p>\n
The post, which said the child was being evaluated by medical personnel, included a photo of the infant \u201cin the arms of a loving paramedic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators were searching for the vehicle believed to have dropped the infant off on Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff\u2019s office said. It was described as a dark minivan or white midsize SUV.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said in an update that it was seeking to talk with three people later identified as the child’s deceased relatives \u2014 Cortney Rose, Matthew Wilson and Adrianna Williams. <\/p>\n
That evening, the sheriff’s office said, four people had been found dead in neighboring Lake County in connection with the case. <\/p>\n
Dyer County District Attorney Danny Goodman identified the dead Wednesday as Wilson, 21, the child\u2019s father; Williams, 20, the mother; Rose, 38, the maternal grandmother; and Braydon Williams, 15, the maternal uncle.<\/p>\n
They were discovered in a wooded area in Tiptonville, roughly 40 miles north of Tigrett, according to NBC affiliate WMC of Memphis<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a deeply saddening day for our community,\u201d Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box said in a statement. \u201cWe are committed to uncovering the truth and ensuring justice is served.\u201d<\/p>\n Tim Stelloh<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Nicole Duarte , John Filippelli and Josh Cradduck contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An infant was found abandoned Tuesday on a \u201crandom\u201d yard shortly before four of the child\u2019s relatives were…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-106815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946336617060586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}