D. C. Woman Who Admitted To Throwing Infant Son’s Body Away Allegedly Killed By Baby’s Father

A Washington D.C. woman who admitted to throwing her 2-month-old son’s body in the trash was allegedly stabbed to death by her baby’s father.

LaDonia Boggs, 39, was killed inside of a Washington, D.C. apartment on the 1500 block of Benning Road on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release.

Just before 3 a.m. that morning, detectives responded to alerts of an incident in the area and found Boggs inside “suffering from an apparent stab wound.” She was declared dead at the scene.

Later that day, officers from the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force found and arrested Carl Jones, 44, charging him with second-degree murder while armed, per the news release. Police added that “this offense was domestic in nature.”

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that Jones’ was the father of Boggs’ child.

Boggs’ death comes almost a year after she was charged with killing her son, Kyon Jones, who is still missing and presumed to be dead.  She admitted in an interview that he died in his sleep before she threw his body in the garbage.

Last year in May, WRIC reported that the Charles City County Sheriff’s Office said authorities were searching a Virginia landfill for the newborn. He was never found. 

A local missing-persons advocate then shared a video of Boggs talking about how her son had died while sleeping in the bed with her.

“The last thing that I remember was that I had rolled over, and he was on my chest. After that, when I was ‘sleep, rolled over, noticed he was unresponsive — breathing — and I panicked,” Boggs said in the video, which was obtained by WRC-TV.

She then went on to detail how she disposed of Kyon’s lifeless body, saying she wrapped it in a blanket before throwing him in the trash. She was later released without bond.

Court documents also said she told police that she had taken PCP before accidentally rolling over on the infant, per NBC Washington. Surveillance video showed Boggs taking a car seat, a plastic bag, and a cardboard box to a dumpster at her apartment complex.

According to reports, prosecutors decided not to pursue murder charges, and Boggs was instead charged with tampering with evidence and was awaiting trial.