Father of infant daughter faces capital murder charge in North Texas Amber Alert case
A Gainesville man faces a charge of capital murder in the death of his infant daughter, whose body was found in a submerged car in the Red River after an Amber Alert earlier this week, according to jail records and Gainesville police.
Jeremy Nathaniel Brown, 30, was in the Cooke County Jail in Gainesville on Thursday. Gainesville is about 65 miles north of Fort Worth.
His baby daughter, 4-month-old Lyrik Brown, was discovered in the vehicle underwater in the Red River on Tuesday afternoon on the Texas-Oklahoma border.
Authorities found her body still in her car seat.
An Amber Alert had been issued early Tuesday morning for the baby after she was reportedly kidnapped by her father.
Brown’s girlfriend, who was the child’s mother, told Gainesville police Monday that she and Lyrik were riding in a car with Brown when she got into an argument and physical fight with him, the Associated Press reported. She said they stopped and got out of the car and continued the altercation when he returned to the car and drove away, with the child still buckled in her car seat, the AP reported.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gainesville police received information on their location, police said in a Facebook post. Officers were dispatched to the Red River at Interstate 35, and they found Jeremy Brown in the river next to his overturned car.
Lyrik’s family was notified, police said.
Jeremy Brown was taken into custody on a warrant issued earlier in the day.
Lyrik had last been seen about 9 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of N. Howeth St. in Gainesville.
