Mom, 20, was stabbed more than 100 TIMES before her toddler son’s body was found in an alligator’s mouth: Dad ‘arrived at his mom’s house with his hands covered in cuts’ just four hours after family threw him a birthday party
- The young father is accused of stabbing his child’s mother to death and throwing his 2-year-old son into a nearby lake, where he was grabbed by an alligator
- The young mother was found in the bathroom of her apartment with more than 100 stab wounds
- Prior to the murders last week, the family had gathered to celebrate the father, Thomas Mosley’s birthday at the victim’s house
A father has been accused of stabbing his child’s mother more than 100 times before putting his two-year-old son in a lake only for him to be found inside an alligator’s mouth.
Thomas Mosley, 21, was charged with two counts of first degree murder for the deaths of Pashun Jeffrey, 20, and the couple’s son, Taylen Mosley, 2 in St. Petersburg, Florida. He allegedly killed the pair following a family celebration of his birthday.
Last Thursday, Jeffrey was found inside her apartment stabbed to death with blood all over the scene and outside the home, and Taylen was found dead hours later inside an alligator about 10 miles from his mother’s home.
Law enforcement recovered the toddler’s body after euthanizing the gator, and Thomas Mosley is currently in Pinellas County Jail after being treated for cuts on his hands and arms.
Thomas Mosley, 21, was charged with two counts of first degree murder following the deaths of his two-year-old son and the child’s mother
The elder Mosley had been at Jeffrey’s home in the late afternoon with the victim’s family to celebrate the young father’s birthday.
Several hours later, Mosley arrived at his mother’s house with ‘severe lacerations to both of his hands and arms consistent with injuries caused by slippage during a knife attack.’
Prior to arriving at his mother’s house, Mosley travelled to the Lake Maggiore area and, in a premeditated fashion, threw his son into the body of water, an action police classified as first degree murder.
Mosley then arrived at his mother’s house at around 9pm and from there went to the hospital to be treated for his wounds before being arrested. He was reportedly not cooperative with authorities.
A GoFundMe established by the mourning family that has now raised north of $20,000, described Jeffrey as ‘dedicated’ to making life better for her son.
Taylen was described as a ‘sweet and happy toddler’ who would ‘grab anyone’s phone and pretend to call his mom’ while she was at work.
‘To see them together and their love for each other was a blessing. We will remember their love and will keep them in our hearts,’ it reads.
Family members last saw Jeffrey and Taylen on Wednesday March 29 around 5.30pm. They called for a welfare check on the young mother the next day when they were unable to contact her.
Neighbors said they overheard a loud commotion near the apartment at around 8.30 on Wednesday night, but police were not called.
The next morning, Jeffrey’s mother called the apartment manager for a welfare check after her daughter missed their daily FaceTime call.
Law enforcement and family members initially hoped to find Taylen alive when his body was spotted being carried by an alligator in the nearby lake
Family members of Pashun said that she was a ‘dedicated’ single mother, who adored her son
Taylen had just celebrated his second birthday 19 days before being found dead
An employee found Jeffrey’s body in the bathroom, which was described as a ‘very violent’ scene, which included a bloody fingerprint on a cleaning bottle that had been ‘intentionally placed under a bed,’ according to an affidavit.
There was also a bloody shoe print with the ‘Gucci’ emblem on the bathroom floor where the victim was found.
Law enforcement and family members initially hoped to find Taylen alive when his body was spotted being carried by an alligator in the nearby lake.
An officer shot the reptile in order to retrieve the body.
‘We are sorry it has had to end this way,’ St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway said at a press conference on Friday night.
Sniffer dogs, drones and search teams had been dispatched to find the missing toddler.
He had celebrated his second birthday just 19 days prior to his murder.
