Police in Georgia have released additional information in connection with a 4-year-old child found deceased in her mother’s car last month.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, police last week charged Jessica Motes, of Flowery Branch, with felony concealing a death, in connection with the death of the child.
Charges have been updated to include first-degree murder, according to a Hall County arrest warrant obtained by Channel 2’s Action News.
The child has been identified as Motes’ daughter, Autumn Fox.
Motes’ father said he saw her on October 26 at a Sam’s Club in Oakwood. She drove her car to the store parking lot and told her father that she “Hurt (redacted name)” and “I think she is dead,” 11 Alive News reports.
The father then reportedly spoke to police, who subsequently found the child’s remains in Motes’ trunk.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating, along with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.
Motes remains behind bars in the Hall County Jail without bond.
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[Feature Photo: Jessica Motes/GBI]
