Blood-Covered Child Leads Police To Possible Crime Scene With 2 Dead Bodies

A child who was wandering with blood-covered clothes led the Birmingham police to two people found dead in a home on Ninth Court Circle South, Alabama, on Thursday, reports said.

The officers from East Precinct responded to a call at around 4:20 p.m. local time (5.20 p.m. EDT) of a child wandering the street alone at the 8700 block of Ninth Court Circle South, Sergeant Johnny Williams said.

According to officers, when they reached the scene, they found the child’s clothes were covered in blood, but the child was not injured. The child then led them to a house where there were two unresponsive adults inside. The two were pronounced dead at the scene right after.

Williams said the child’s relationship with the two adults remained unclear at the time. The incident is being investigated as an unclassified death by the police. This means that the death could have happened due to natural reasons, it could have been accidental, suicidal or homicidal.

The identities of the two will be withheld until their family members are notified of their deaths. Investigators are canvassing the area to gather additional information in this case, Williams said.

Anyone with additional information on the case was asked to come forward and inform the police.

In an unrelated incident, a 13-year-old girl with special needs was killed by her grandmother’s killer after she witnessed the incident in July.

Mariah Lopez and her 49-year-old grandmother, Oralia Mendoza, reportedly went to buy drugs on June 4 in Moon Cemetery outside of Huntsville, Alabama. Mendoza, who was allegedly linked to the drug-trafficking organization Sinaloa Cartel, got into a fight with two persons. Thirty-four-year-old Israel Palomino and 26-year-old Yoni Aguilar were charged with two counts of murder each, which is punishable by death penalty.

Mendoza used to be in a relationship with Palomino while she was in a live-in relationship with Aguilar at the time of her death.

Police officials said the two men became suspicious of Mendoza when she sent texts to a mystery number with an alternate SIM number during the drug run.

In the hearing, Aguilar told the judge that they took the grandmother and the teenager to the cemetery in a car. Palomino got out of the car and argued with Mendoza, and soon the argument got out of hand, finally resulting in the death of Mendoza in front of Lopez.

Lopez was on the autism spectrum and Mendoza was her main guardian. The police said Aguilar told them that Palomino had forced him to kill the girl.

They took her to a secluded area and Palomino moved Aguilar’s hand, which held a knife, back and forth, beheading the girl, investigator Stacy Rutherford told a judge at the hearing. Aguilar was apparently afraid of Palomino.

Two knives, believed to be the murder weapons, were recovered by the police from under Palomino's and Aguilar's mattresses.