Brandon Toseland, 53, was arrested Tuesday after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department found the preschooler’s body in a freezer in his mother’s garage. He’Police say they obtained a search warrant for the Saddle Brook Park Drive home after the little boy’s sibling brought a note to her Clark County School District elementary school around 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
“We believe the child has been deceased since early December,” Spencer said. The lieutenant added that while authorities do not believe the children’s mother was involved in the young boy’s death, “there are a lot of questions that we still have to answer about what occurred over the last three months.”
One Saddle Brook Park Drive neighbor, who did not wish to be identified for fear of personal retribution, told The Daily Beast that she was “shocked” to hear about the terrifying allegations made against Toseland. Calling the neighborhood “quiet,” the resident said she never “expected anything like this to happen here.”, however, family friend Alberta Amezcua described Toseland as “very aggressive.” “It’s heartbreaking,” she said. "What goes through people’s minds? He was such a happy kid.
Toseland, who is not the father of either child, was originally charged with kidnapping and was rebooked into Clark County Detention Center on the murder charge on Wednesday afternoon. He is expected to have another court appearance Thursday morning.