HOUSTON – Police are searching for a person of interest after a 3-year-old boy died from injuries in the Sharpstown area on New Year’s Eve, according to the Houston Police Department.
Investigators are looking to question 19-year-old David Ajanel Ixcayau about the death of 3-year-old Wilson Cosigua.
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Officers responded to a call of a person down at 5:30 p.m. at the Happy Village Apartments.
Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner said the boy’s mother received a call from relatives inside the unit that the boy was unresponsive from some type of injury. Investigators did not offer any details on the nature of the injury.
When the mother returned home, a neighbor performed CPR on the boy before he was taken to the hospital.
“We do not know the cause of death. We don’t know if it’s foul play and I don’t want to speculate on it but very sadly a three-year-old is dead,” Finner said.
The boy lived at the home with his mother and several relatives or friends, police said.
Finner vowed to get to the bottom of what happened and said police are treating the area as a crime scene until they do.
“We got a three-year-old dead and anybody that knows me, Chief Acevedo and our entire department, we take it very seriously and very personally,” Finner said.
Police have several people of interest that were detained, Finner said. Further investigation led to the identification of Ixcayou as a person of interest in this incident, police said.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts or in this case is asked to call the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.