03-02-2011, 09:25 PM
they have not been identified.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Police in Delray Beach said Wednesday evening that a second child's body has been found near where a girl's body was discovered earlier in the day.
Police said the boy was between 10 and 12 years old. His body was found in a suitcase in a canal, just west of the area where a duffel bag containing a girl's body was found hours earlier.
Delray Beach police said the first body, belonging to a girl between 6 and 12 years old, was found about 9 a.m. Wednesday in a canal that divides Boca Raton and Delray Beach. The boy's body was found shortly after that.
Police said the girl was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and blue Polo brand sneakers. She also had braided hair with white beads on each strand.
The girl's body was taken to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office, where they were trying to determine a cause of death.
Delray Beach Police are seeking the public's help to identify a child's body found in a duffel bag on Wednesday.
The girl was discovered around 9 a.m. in the black duffel bag in the C-15 canal that separates Delray Beach and Boca Raton, according to Delray Beach Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero.
The little girl is described as black, between 6 and 12, and weighing between 70 and 90 pounds. She is just over 4 feet tall and her hair was braided with white or clear beads, according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark-colored pants and blue 'Polo' brand sneakers, Guerriero said.
The duffel bag was found in the canal midway between the Carl Bolter Drive bridge and Congress Avenue overpass, she said.
Investigators don't know how long the body was in the water or how it got there.
"There's lots of access to this canal," Guerriero said. "It could be [tossed] from a bridge, it could [have floated there] from another city, who knows?"
The canal current flows east from U.S. 441 west to the Intracoastal Waterway.
Police were releasing as much information as they could as fast as they could to try to identify the child as quickly as possible, she said.
"We're checking national databases trying to see if there's any [missing] child that matches the description," Guerriero said.
Police ask anyone with information to contact Delray Beach police Detective Pete Sosa at 561-243-7828.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Police in Delray Beach said Wednesday evening that a second child's body has been found near where a girl's body was discovered earlier in the day.
Police said the boy was between 10 and 12 years old. His body was found in a suitcase in a canal, just west of the area where a duffel bag containing a girl's body was found hours earlier.
Delray Beach police said the first body, belonging to a girl between 6 and 12 years old, was found about 9 a.m. Wednesday in a canal that divides Boca Raton and Delray Beach. The boy's body was found shortly after that.
Police said the girl was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and blue Polo brand sneakers. She also had braided hair with white beads on each strand.
The girl's body was taken to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office, where they were trying to determine a cause of death.
Delray Beach Police are seeking the public's help to identify a child's body found in a duffel bag on Wednesday.
The girl was discovered around 9 a.m. in the black duffel bag in the C-15 canal that separates Delray Beach and Boca Raton, according to Delray Beach Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero.
The little girl is described as black, between 6 and 12, and weighing between 70 and 90 pounds. She is just over 4 feet tall and her hair was braided with white or clear beads, according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark-colored pants and blue 'Polo' brand sneakers, Guerriero said.
The duffel bag was found in the canal midway between the Carl Bolter Drive bridge and Congress Avenue overpass, she said.
Investigators don't know how long the body was in the water or how it got there.
"There's lots of access to this canal," Guerriero said. "It could be [tossed] from a bridge, it could [have floated there] from another city, who knows?"
The canal current flows east from U.S. 441 west to the Intracoastal Waterway.
Police were releasing as much information as they could as fast as they could to try to identify the child as quickly as possible, she said.
"We're checking national databases trying to see if there's any [missing] child that matches the description," Guerriero said.
Police ask anyone with information to contact Delray Beach police Detective Pete Sosa at 561-243-7828.