Authorities arrested a father in California over the weekend after two of his children were found dead in his eastern Nebraska home, police said on Sunday.
Law enforcement in Bellevue, south of Omaha, said 5-year-old Emily Price and 3-year-old Theodore Price were found dead Sunday morning in 34-year-old Adam Price’s home. The father was not at the scene but was later arrested thousands of miles away in California.
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The Bellevue Police Department did not mention how the children died but confirmed Price was arrested Sunday evening in Pacifica, near San Francisco. Authorities said the children’s deaths were being treated as “suspicious” in the investigation, and Price now awaits extradition to Nebraska, KTXL reports.
Please see the press release below for details regarding a death investigation is currently working. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family three-year-old Theodore and five-year-old Emily. Tweeted by @Capt_Jashinske pic.twitter.com/aehY74hgvq
— Bellevue Police (@BellevuePolice) May 16, 2021
Price was held on a felony fugitive arrest warrant, but no charges were logged into the Nebraska court system as of Monday morning, according to the local FOX affiliate.
Mary Nielsen, the mother of the children, told reporters that she and Price are in the process of getting divorced, and the children were at their father’s home for court-ordered visitation.
Nielsen had not heard from her children since Thursday and began calling the police and posting pleas on social media over the weekend after not receiving a response from Price regarding her children’s whereabouts. She added that her husband was under court order to provide daily communication with the children during his visits.
BPD went to Price’s home at the request of Nielsen twice before the deceased children were discovered. They first went to the home Saturday night but left when no one answered the door and came back early Sunday. Police spokesman Capt. Andy Jashinske wrote in the initial readout that officers didn’t have sufficient reason to force an entry into the home during their Saturday evening visit.
A friend of Nielsen’s went to the home at approximately 11 a.m. Sunday and discovered the door was unlocked. She reported to the police after she discovered the deceased children inside.
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“I wish I could hold you one more time and tell you how much I love you,” Nielsen wrote in a Facebook post on Monday, FOX 40 reported.
The Washington Examiner contacted BPD but did not immediately receive a response.