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The search for Wynter Cole-Smith, a kidnapped 2-year-old girl, has come to a tragic end as investigators have found her dead in Detroit, Michigan. Speaking Wednesday night, Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee declined to release many details because the case against alleged kidnapper Rashad Trice, 26, is ongoing. Authorities are considering new charges in what is now a homicide investigation.

Authorities previously said Trice stabbed and wounded Cole-Smith’s mother and abducted the boy from the city of Lansing Sunday night. Police said he was arrested hours later about 90 miles to the east in St. Clair Shores, which is just northeast of Detroit. According to the police, he crashed into a patrol car. The collision caused minor injuries to one of the officers.

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However, investigators did not find Cole-Smith in Trice’s vehicle. Sosebee told reporters late Wednesday that a federal search team discovered the boy’s body near Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit, about 100 miles east of Lansing.

“This is not the outcome that anyone expected, and I promise that the police will make sure that the family gets the justice that they so deserve,” she said.

She asked the public to forward any information, including digital evidence and witness statements, to the Lansing Police Department or the FBI tip line. Authorities had previously given the number for the Lansing Police Department at 517-483-4600. You can submit tips to the FBI at http://tips.fbi.gov or call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Investigators traced Trice’s whereabouts through data from his phone and searched for locations where he stayed for more than a few minutes, according to sources cited by Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV. Trice, who is the ex-boyfriend of Wynter’s mother, is currently charged with assault with intent to murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree burglary, unlawful imprisonment, and aggravated domestic violence.

Speaking before the tragic discovery, Wynter’s father, Almount “AJ” Smith, described his daughter as kind, confident, and expressive, according to CBS Detroit.

“She gets along with everyone,” said Smith, who attended school in Tennessee and returned to Michigan because of the kidnapping. “Unfortunately, she trusts him, so she may not have even given it a second thought, but that’s how good she is, not to see evil in anyone and for someone to take advantage of it; she’s just she’s not right”.