LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Police in North Little Rock have identified the woman and child who were found dead off the side of the Interstate 440 on-ramp from Highway 165 Tuesday morning.
Officials with the North Little Rock Police Department said victims in this case were identified as 27-year-old Teangela Tate of Jacksonville and her infant 2-month-old son Noel Mott.
A second child who police officers found at the scene, age 1.5 years old, is currently hospitalized and is listed in critical condition. Tate was also the mother of this child.
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Authorities initially referred to this case as a death investigation, but detectives said the evidence they have found so far has led them to escalate this to a homicide investigation. Detectives are not releasing information on what led them to escalate the case.
Investigators said autopsies for both Tate and the infant child are pending.
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