Police investigate after 6-week-old child found dead at Mississippi motel

Police have launched an investigation into the death of an infant discovered early Monday morning at a Mississippi motel.

Officers were dispatched to the Motel 6 on Greenway Drive in Jackson after a 6-week-old boy was found unresponsive. According to the Jackson Police Department, the child’s mother and father discovered the infant was not breathing at approximately 6 a.m. in the room where the family was staying.

Preliminary reports indicate the parents last saw the child alive at approximately 2 a.m. Investigators questioned both parents at the scene as part of the standard inquiry into the unattended death…

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