One of the Ohio twin boys who were kidnapped in December has now passed away, the police confirmed.
Six-month-old brothers Kason and Kyair Thomas were snatched along with their mother’s car in Columbus, Ohio, when the woman picked up a Door Dash order at a pizza shop.
“Somebody just stole my car and my babies are in there,” the mother said in a 911 call.
“I was just right here and all I was doing was just grabbing this pizza. I was right here, I didn’t even go inside the building.”
While Kyair was found abandoned at an airport parking the next day, Kason wasn’t discovered until three days later when he was spotted in a stolen vehicle in Indianapolis.
Now, just a month after the kidnapping ordeal, first responders rushed to the family’s home in Columbus after receiving a report of a baby not breathing.
After they arrived at the scene, the paramedics rushed Kyair to the children’s hospital where he was pronounced dead just some thirty minutes later.
While the official cause of Kyair’s death is yet to be confirmed, a relative of the child suggested that the baby boy died from choking.
“I am like in a state of shock for real. I literally, I really am. I am devastated I’m hurt,” Wilma Booker, the aunt of the boys’ mother, said.
Speaking of her niece and the twins’ mother, Wilhelmina Barnett, the aunt added:
“She’s doing really bad right now. While I wasn’t exactly right there when it happened, my kids were there. [She] was feeding the babies, and one of them started choking on the milk and that’s what happened.
“She immediately called 911, trying to do chest compression and CPR things to get the baby back at that time. It was just like an accident that happened from feeding the babies and that was it.”
Our thoughts are with Kyair’s family during this challenging time.
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