St. Petersburg police find body of missing Florida boy, 2, in mouth of an alligator

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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Thomas Mosley via St. Petersburg Police Dept.
St. Petersburg Police Dept.

The body of a 2-year-old Florida boy who had been missing since his mother
was found slain Thursday was also discovered dead in the mouth of an
alligator Friday, police said.

Police were waiting for the medical examiner to examine the body of Taylen
Mosley to determine the cause of death, St. Petersburg Police Chief
Anthony Holloway said Friday.

However, Holloway said the boy's father, Thomas Mosley, 21, has been
charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of the boy’s
mother, 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery, and their young son, Taylen. The
department posted the news on its Facebook page.

A frantic daylong search involving local, state and federal authorities
including dive teams and officers using drones, had been ongoing since the
boy's mother’s body was found stabbed to death in her St. Petersburg
apartment Thursday afternoon.

While searching for the boy at the nearby Dell Holmes Park recreational
area and Lake Maggiore, detectives saw an alligator in the lake with
something in its mouth. When they realized it was a child’s body, they
fired at and killed the alligator.

"As the detectives got closer they fired one round into the alligator and
the alligator dropped the object and we were able to retrieve Taylen's
body intact," Holloway said during a Friday night press conference, posted
by Tampa Bay area TV station Spectrum Bay News 9.

“We are sorry it has had to end this way,” Holloway said during news
conference.

Police had issued an amber alert Thursday for Taylen after police found
his mother's body. Jeffery, who worked at a CVS store, and her son were
last seen by family members around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. Police have said
around 8:30 p.m. neighbors heard a loud commotion near their apartment but
police were not called.

Jeffery’s mother contacted the property manager at the apartment complex
after not hearing from her daughter the next day. Family members said
Jeffery and Taylen had just moved about a month ago.

Jeffrey was found dead in what Holloway described as “a very violent crime
scene” in which she had been stabbed numerous times.

Thomas Mosley went to his mother’s house about 9 p.m. Wednesday with the
cuts on his arms and hands, Holloway said, and then admitted himself to a
local hospital, where he remained Friday night. "He didn't want to talk to
a detective and then later on he asked for an attorney," Mosley said.

Contributing: The Associated Press.

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[Greg Carr]

Interesting story but why post 3 times? You always post on topic but you never participate in threads.