Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Police: Mom faces murder count in knife death of toddler

Metro Police today identified a woman they allege killed her 2-year-old son this week before turning a knife on herself.

Cristina Moya, 21, who was hospitalized Monday at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with serious injuries, was booked in absentia at the Clark County Detention Center on a count of murder, police said.

Officers responded about 7:50 a.m. Monday to a house in the 8600 block of Manalang Road, near Pebble Road and Pollock Drive, police said.

Moya and her son hadn’t been seen since the previous night, and the child’s father forced his way into a locked bedroom when she wouldn’t come out, police said.

The body of the child, whose wrists were cut, was found on a bed, and the woman was suffering from multiple self-inflicted lacerations, police said.

The investigation was ongoing today. Further details were not immediately available.