5-Year-Old Found Stuffed In Suitcase; Mother Last Seen In LA

LOS ANGELES, CA — A body found in a suitcase in rural Indiana in April has been identified as a 5-year-old boy from Atlanta, according to Indiana State Police. Authorities were searching for his mother, who was last seen in the Los Angeles area.

Cairo Ammar Jordan's body was found in a Las Vegas-themed suitcase on April 16 by a mushroom hunter about 80 feet from Holder Road in Washington County, Indiana.

Cairo would have been 6-years-old on Monday, police said.

Cairo's mother, Dejaune Ludie Anderson, 37, of Atlanta, and Dawn Coleman, 40, of Shreveport, Louisiana, are being charged on suspicion of obstruction of justice and neglect of a dependent resulting in death, police said.

Anderson is also charged on suspicion of murder in connection with Cairo's death. She was last seen in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California authorities reported.

Meanwhile, Coleman was arrested Oct. 19 with the help of the San Francisco Police Department, officials said.

Police described Anderson as a Black woman who is 5-feet-5-inches and about 135 pounds with short, dark brown hair. According to authorities, she is known to wear wigs or hair extensions.

Police said she has been seen in San Francisco and San Diego, both in California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Houston, Texas. Anyone who believes they have seen Anderson is asked to call local authorities, police said.

There was little information known about the boy initially because no one came forward to identify the body and the child was never reported missing, police said.

An autopsy showed Cairo's cause of death was electrolyte imbalance caused by viral gastroenteritis, police said.