A baby who was recently returned to his mother after an alleged abduction has died on Saturday after being rushed to hospital.
Ky’air Thomas and his twin brother, Kason, were found alive last month after a woman allegedly stole a car while they were still in it. Both boys were returned to their mother in Ohio, the Columbus Division of Police said in December.
On Saturday, Columbus police were called to a residence after reports of a baby not breathing. Ky’air was pronounced dead after being taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, according to police.
A cause of death has not been released.
Nalah Jackson is accused of stealing a 2010 Honda Accord outside a restaurant in the Short North neighborhood on Dec. 19, with both twins inside. Ky’air was later found at Dayton International Airport and Jackson was arrested, but Kason remained missing.
The Honda Accord was later found, with Kason in it, abandoned near a Papa John’s restaurant in Indianapolis.
Shyann Belmar told NBC affiliate WCMH that they gave Jackson a ride to a gas station on Dec. 20, then saw her photo on Facebook in connection with the kidnapping allegations.
“I wasn’t going to go off the picture until I could find out where I knew her from, and I was like ‘I hope I don’t know her,’ but something told me this looks like the girl who was in my car,” Belmar said.
She and Jackson had exchanged numbers, so Belmar told WCMH that she and her cousin, Mecka Curry, arranged to drive Jackson to numerous stores and eventually called the police with their location.
After Jackson was arrested, the two women said they went out to dinner and saw the Honda with Kason in it.
Jackson was charged with two counts of kidnapping by local authorities following her December arrest. She was also charged with two counts of kidnapping a minor in the Southern District of Ohio following an indictment earlier this month.
No plea has yet been filed in Jackson’s federal case, according to court documents. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Jackson has filed a plea in her state case, which has an upcoming trial on Tuesday, according to Franklin County inmate records.
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