A newborn baby has been found dead inside the bathroom of a McDonald’s in Phoenix – and police are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman seen on surveillance footage.
Officers responded to the burger joint near 33rd Avenue and Indian School Road at about 2 p.m. Sunday and found the child inside the bathroom, KFAR reported.
The baby was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.
Police released surveillance footage showing a person of interest, a woman who is seen wearing a black Calvin Klein shirt, black pants and sandals.
She tries to open a door and then walks back through the dining area before moving out of sight of the camera.
Police Sgt. Philip Krynsky told KOLD that detectives are investigating the shocking case, adding that no one has been arrested so far.
The autopsy results are pending, police said.
The woman is seen on surveillance walking to a back door inside the McDonald’s. YouTube/Silent Witness AZ
The woman tries to open a door and then walks back through the dining area. YouTube/Silent Witness AZ
The woman was wearing a black Calvin Klein shirt, black pants and sandals. YouTube/Silent Witness AZPolice believe there are witnesses who left the eatery before police got there.
Anyone with information is asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish speakers.
There have been several recent incidents of newborn babies being abandoned in public.
The McDonald’s was near 33rd Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix, Arizona. Google MapsIn January, a newborn was found abandoned in the bathroom of an Air Mauritius plane after the mother gave birth mid-flight and allegedly dumped the boy in the bin.
Also that month, a teen was captured on video tossing her newborn into a dumpster in New Mexico — only for the child to be found alive hours later by three people sifting through the trash.
