{"id":471241,"date":"2026-10-20T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:36:12","slug":"2-arrested-after-infants-body-found-at-fort-worth-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471241\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested after infant’s body found at Fort Worth motel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 23-year-old woman intentionally caused the death of her infant whose body was found next to a dumpster at a motel in west Fort Worth on Sunday, police allege.<\/p>\n

Avia Cantrell was arrested on Monday on suspicion of capital murder, according to Fort Worth jail records. Camron Baker, 26, was arrested on suspicion of abuse of a corpse.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth police officers were called about 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, to the Drummers Inn, in the 7300 block of Camp Bowie West Boulevard, after a person found the baby\u2019s body, police said.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, a relative of Cantrell who was worried that the found baby Cantrell\u2019s called police. Cantrell has a history of unattended or undisclosed pregnancy and childbirth and was close to delivering, according to the relative\u2019s account, described in a police record.<\/p>\n

The relative said that Cantrell lives at the motel full-time with three other children.<\/p>\n

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office<\/a> has not released the cause of the infant\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth Police Department crimes against children unit detectives are investigating the case.<\/p>\n

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