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UPDATE: Family Of Slain Mother & Florida Toddler Found Dead Inside Alligator’s Mouth Speaks Out

<p>A family member of the late mother&comma; <strong>Pashun Jeffrey&comma;<&sol;strong> and her slain Florida toddler <strong>Taylen Mosley<&sol;strong>&comma; whose body was found intact inside an alligator&&num;8217&semi;s mouth&comma; has revealed how she found a trail of blood outside the family&&num;8217&semi;s home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Theo Brickhouse-Sails<&sol;strong> told area news outlet <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wfla&period;com&sol;top-stories&sol;taylen-mosleys-family-speaks-out-on-toddlers-death-for-the-first-time&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em><strong>WFLA<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a> that she &&num;8220&semi;never&comma; in a million years&&num;8221&semi; would have expected such a gruesome tragedy before going on to say she first became concerned for the young mother&comma; who is her great-niece&comma; when she failed to get in touch with her the last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Relative Of Slain Young Mother &amp&semi; Toddler Son Says She Followed A Trail Of Blood Outside Family&&num;8217&semi;s Home<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The phone went to voicemail&comma;” Brickhouse-Sails said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And nobody answered&period; And just kept going to voicemail&comma; and my gut told me something was wrong&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Brickhouse-Sails says she hurried over to the 20-year-old mother&&num;8217&semi;s St&period; Petersburg home while on her lunch break and didn&&num;8217&semi;t get an answer after knocking on the door&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she did find a trail of blood outside&comma; leading from the front door to a parked car nearby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1642007436763582465" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Jeffrey Fatally Stabbed Over 100 Times&comma; 2-Year-Old Son Found Dead Inside Alligator&&num;8217&semi;s Mouth<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Investigators were called to the scene last Thursday and located Pashun Jeffrey inside the bathroom with over 100 stab wounds on her body&comma; which authorities called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a very violent crime scene&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Responding officers could not find Jeffrey&&num;8217&semi;s young son&comma; Taylen&comma; prompting a frantic search that ended horrifyingly the following day after his body was found inside an alligator&&num;8217&semi;s mouth at a lake close to the boy&&num;8217&semi;s home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would have never&comma; in a million years&comma; when this week started&comma; ever thought that something like this would happen&comma;” Brickhouse-Sails said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; Brickhouse-Sails shared her &&num;8220&semi;biggest worry&&num;8221&semi; regarding her family members&&num;8217&semi; deaths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I worried about them suffering&period; That’s my biggest worry was that how they suffered&period; And when I close my eyes at night&comma; that’s all I see was the suffering of both of them&period; And I pray to God that they didn’t suffer long&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Jeffrey&&num;8217&semi;s boyfriend and the boy&&num;8217&semi;s father&comma; 21-year-old Thomas Mosley&comma; has since been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their deaths and was ordered held without bond&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;father-charged-with-murder-taylen-mosley-alligator&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;1lkhn3z&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MjY2MDA1OTE3LjE2ODA3OTc1NjU&period;&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4MDc5NzU2My4xLjEuMTY4MDc5OTAwNi4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong><em>The Shade Room<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;a> previously reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to an affidavit&comma; a bloody fingerprint on a cleaning bottle and a bloody Gucci shoe print inside Jeffrey’s apartment ultimately linked Mosley to the gruesome crime scene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;father-charged-with-murder-taylen-mosley-alligator&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;1lkhn3z&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MjY2MDA1OTE3LjE2ODA3OTc1NjU&period;&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4MDc5NzU2My4xLjEuMTY4MDc5OTAwNi4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Father Charged With Murder After His Two-Year-Old Son Was Found Dead In An Alligator’s Mouth<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1642258852400840710" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Timeline Of The Crime&colon; From Initial Wellness Check To Gruesome Murders<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>An arrest affidavit obtained by <em>Buzzfeed News <&sol;em>says Pashun’s family visited her and Taylen at their apartment for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;buzzfeednews&period;com&sol;article&sol;pocharaponneammanee&sol;taylen-mosley-2-year-old-dead-alligator" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Thomas’ birthday celebration<&sol;a> on Wednesday &lpar;March 29&rpar;&period; The Pinellas County <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcsoweb&period;com&sol;InmateBooking&sol;SubjectResults&period;aspx&quest;id&equals;1925814" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">arrest record<&sol;a> indicates Thomas Mosley&&num;8217&semi;s 21st birthday was the same day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 20-year-old mother and toddler were last seen alive at about 5&colon;20 p&period;m&period;&comma; per St&period; Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway&period; Though neighbors reported hearing loud noises from the apartment at about 8&colon;30 p&period;m&period;&comma; no one called the police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At her family’s request&comma; police conducted a wellness check on Pashun on Thursday&period; However&comma; they found a bloody homicide scene and the missing toddler&period; Described as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very violent” scene by officials&comma; Pashun’s body had over &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;100 wounds&period;” Following the discovery&comma; officials issued an alert for Taylen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As officials combed the surrounding areas&comma; officers <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;85-year-old-florida-woman-killed-by-10-foot-long-alligator&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">spotted an alligator<&sol;a> inside Lake Maggiore holding something in its mouth&period; Police shot the alligator&comma; killing it and forcing it to loosen its jaws&period; After retrieving the body&comma; they identified the child as Taylen Mosley&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1642205057922789378" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Child&&num;8217&semi;s Father Became A Suspect After Checking Himself Into Hospital Wednesday Night<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Officials transported him to the medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of death&period; Police made the discovery near Dell Holmes Park&comma; about 13 miles from where the child lived with his mother&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The child’s father became a suspect after checking himself <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;update-flo-rida-speaks-out-after-6-year-old-son-is-hospitalized-from-five-story-apartment-window-fall&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">into a hospital<&sol;a> on Wednesday night&comma; per the police chief&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thomas’ wounds — cuts on his hands and arms — correlated to a knife slipping during an attack&comma; per the arrest affidavit&period; He reportedly refused to speak to investigators in the hospital and requested a lawyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investigators believe the father left Pashun’s apartment at about 8&colon;42 p&period;m&period; 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