The Root; Published By: Kalyn Womack
Updated as of 4/25/2023 at 9:30 a.m. ET
Florida police say the toddler who went missing and was found dead in the mouth of an alligator last month was drowned by his father, according to NBC News. The 2-year-old was killed just days after his father fatally stabbed his mother.
St. Petersburg police and the Pinellas County medical examiner confirmed Monday that Taylen Mosley’s cause of death was drowning. Though the full autopsy has not been released, police are investigating his death as a homicide. Mosley’s father, Thomas, was charged with first-degree murder in connection to his death and that of his mother, who was found dead with over 100 stab wounds the day the toddler was reported missing. Read more
