Louisiana police have stopped looking for two girls who were taken after their mother was killed. During a press meeting, officials said they had found the body of the 4-year-old girl and found her sister still alive.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office says that 35-year-old Callie Brunett was found “brutally murdered” in her bedroom early Thursday morning. She had been missing since Tuesday.
Sheriff Daniel Edwards told the press Thursday morning that her two young children, Jalie, 6, and Erin, 4, are “unaccounted for.”
After hours, the police made a terrible find and said that Erin Brunett’s body had been found.
“What a terrible, terrible, sad situation. As a police chief or a father, you don’t want to see this baby on the ground who has died. “This is a four-year-old child who is not guilty,” Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said at a press meeting.
According to WVUE, police said that Jalie was found living and that the suspect, Daniel Callihan, was caught in Jackson, Mississippi.
Police say Erin’s body was found just a few yards away from where her sister was found alive in the woods.
It was found that Jalie was inside the car that Callihan was driving.
She was taken to a nearby hospital to get care for minor injuries.
“A coward took this child from her family,” he said.
The probe is being helped by the Mississippi Bureau of Probe and the Jackson Police Department.
The Louisiana State Police put out an Amber Alert for the girls early Thursday morning on behalf of the sheriff’s office. The girls were last seen at their home in Loranger around 8 a.m.
Police said that an argument about domestic abuse got out of hand and ended with Brunett’s death and the girls being taken away.
The way Callie Brunett died was not immediately released by the police, but Edwards said there was “blood everywhere.”
