Authorities have identified the boy found dead inside a suitcase in rural Indiana earlier this year, according to a Wednesday news release from the Indiana State Police.
The body of Cairo Ammar Jordan of Atlanta, Georgia, was found in rural Washington County inside a hard-shell suitcase with a “distinctive Las Vegas design on its front and back,” police said in April. State police were called to investigate after a resident who was mushroom hunting discovered the suitcase on April 16 and immediately called 911, the agency said. An autopsy found Cairo died from electrolyte imbalance, officials said in May.
The autopsy report also indicated there was no significant traumatic injuries, meaning there was no anatomical cause of death, police said. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Cairo’s mother, Dejuane Ludie Anderson, 37, for charges of murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice, according to the state police release. Anderson is described as a Black woman with short, dark brown hair who is 5-feet-5-inches tall and weighs 135 pounds.