Autopsies Released For Two Children Killed in Northwest Charlotte Double-Murder Suicide
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On Monday, the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office released autopsy results for 7-year-old Isaiah and 3-year-old Iliyah Miller.
According to the release, both children died from strangulation. Officials say injuries found on Isaiah’s wrists also indicate that he was tied up when the strangulation occurred.
Both children were found unresponsive in their northwest Charlotte home back in January after their mother, 34-year-old Christina Treadway, committed suicide by jumping off a bridge on to I-485. They were transported to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead.
You can read the full autopsy results here by clicking the links below:
Original Story (Jan. 14, 2018)
CHARLOTTE, NC – Family members are speaking after a double-murder suicide involving two children.
“Don’t think anybody should have to go through what we’re going through,” says grandfather Gregory Moore.
Moore lost his only two grandchildren Saturday.
Seven-year-old Isaiah and three-year-old Iliyah Miller died.
“It’s a shame that, you know, they won’t be able to, you know, fulfill their lives. My son is heartbroken, you know he’s devastated,” Moore says.
Police say the children’s mother, 34-year-old Christina Treadway, assaulted them inside their home on Sebastiani Drive in Northwest Charlotte.
Then she killed herself by jumping off a bridge on to I-485.
The two kids died at the hospital.
“She had a couple issues she was going through, mentally. And we tried to help her. You know, she was in denial,” Moore says.
Several in the community are still in disbelief. Neighbors say they saw the two playing outside the day they died.
“I would see them pretty much every day, pretty much playing around, riding their bicycles, everything like that, playing on the porch, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary,” says Northwest Charlotte resident Bernard Jant.
Moore says he just wants to be there for his son.
“I just feel horrible that he won’t get the pleasure that we had watching him grow up, go off to college, get an education, enjoy life, you know his kids will never have that opportunity,” he says.
The father has now set up a Go Fund Me page to help pay for the children’s funeral.
