VIRGINIA BEACH — A 2-year-old girl was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a hotel on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront early Monday morning.
Police responded to the hotel, located in the 3600 block of Atlantic Avenue, around 3:32 a.m. At the scene, officers found the child dead in a hotel room and a woman, the child’s mother, suffering a medical emergency.
The woman left Washington, D.C. after the girl’s father was awarded full legal custody of the child in a hearing July 26. Physical custody was split evenly between the two parents. The woman was last seen in Washington Friday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Virginia Beach police responded to the Oceanfront hotel after D.C. police were alerted to the location of the mother and child in the city.
Virginia Beach police are investigating the case as a suspicious death, but the child’s cause and manner of death were not readily apparent, police said.
The medical examiner’s office is performing an autopsy to determine how the child died.
Ali Sullivan, 757-677-1974, ali.sullivan@virginiamedia.com