Police Announce Arrest In Murder Of Decapitated 2-Year-Old Boy
By Stephen Gossett in News on Nov 15, 2016 9:41PM
Courtesy CPD / Twitter
Update:
Police announced that Kamel Harris, 41, was arrested and charged.
FORMALLY CHARGED: 41 yo Kamel Harris is the barbaric monster charged with murder, concealing a homicide & dismembering 2 yo Kyrian Knox. pic.twitter.com/C3ZY8ByKSl
— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) November 16, 2016
Original:
Authorities have made an arrest in the grisly murder of 2-year-old Kyrian Knox, whose decapitated remains were discovered in a Garfield Park lagoon in September of last year, police said on Tuesday.
CPD Communications Director Anthony Guglielmi announced the arrest on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. He did not offer additional information, but said a press conference would be forthcoming at 5 p.m.
We promised we'd never give up on him and we havent. CPD detectives made an arrest in the murder & decapitation of 2 yr old Kyrian Knox pic.twitter.com/i7Ivyocdd2
— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) November 15, 2016
The child’s remains were discovered on Sept. 5, 2015, but authorities struggled for several weeks to identify the boy.
Kyrian's mother, Lanisha Knox, said last year that she left Kyrian in Rockford while she moved for work to Cedar Rapids, IA. Kamel Harris, who was watching the boy and reported him missing, told authorities last year that he handed the child over to a group of people he didn't know but was granted permission by Know over the phone.