LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A search is underway for the owner of an urn with a one-month-old baby’s ashes, after a Las Vegas family said they discovered it inside their stolen truck.
Ahmad Ervin discovered the urn, filled with ashes, after he was reunited with his stolen truck. His sister-in-law has posted photos on social media in hopes of reuniting the urn with the baby’s family.
It reads, “My little Angel: Marcel Akarhi Alexander,” with a birthday of January 7, 2020 and a date of death of February 20, 2020.
“I had to add a duty to try to find who the ashes belong to,” said Ahmad Ervin, the owner of Lookout Moving Company. “I would want somebody to actually look for me, to try to get it back to me too,” he said.
In late September, a neighbor’s surveillance camera captured someone driving off with a moving truck outside Ervin’s apartment in the Southeast Valley. Ervin is in the process of launching his company, and the truck was sitting outside empty.
“I had to do my proper due diligence by calling the police. I had to start going into investigating myself, because I didn’t want to lose my truck,” Ervin said, asking neighbors, friends and nearby businesses to be on the lookout for the large white truck.
Ervin said he got a tip that the truck was spotted in a parking lot along Boulder Highway. When Ervin arrived, found the vehicle and opened it, he said it was full of items that appeared to be stolen.
“Clothes, wallets, purses, everything was still in the truck. Probably about 10 people that might have been victimized during the time that [thieves] had my truck,” Ervin said.
Ervin said police arrived, questioned certain individuals, collected evidence inside and left Ervin with his truck and the heap of other peoples’ belongings.
“I was going through the truck and I was cleaning the clothes out. It kind of fell out,” Ahmad said.
His sister-in-law, Danielle Belin, has been posting photos of the urn across social media. She has also dealt with the pain of losing and cremating the remains of a young baby and had a mission to find the baby’s mother.
“I know, if it was one of my children’s ashes, I would have just lost my mind with worry, because it’s something that you can never get back,” Belin said. “When once you have your child’s ashes, it’s like the most precious thing,” she said.
Online records lead to a notice at Davis Funeral Home. The general manager for the home said the baby’s remains were cremated there, and they have reached out to the mother through their contact information. They will continue their efforts to reach out.
The manager said, if no one claims the ashes, the funeral home can provide the baby’s urn a final resting place.
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