A court hearing is scheduled for March 23 for a man accused in the death of a two-year-old child who was found dead in Minnesota last week.
Dariaz Higgins remains in custody in Milwaukee, and was charged Sunday in the shooting death of the girl's mother, Sierra Robinson, and wounding one of her friends.
Bail was set for Higgins at $1 million.
Milwaukee's police chief confirms the body of Noelani Robinson was found in a rural area of southern Minnesota, near the town of Blooming Prairie.
A preliminary autopsy report listed the cause of death as blunt force tramau to the head.
The girl went missing Monday after her mother was found shot to death.
An AMBER Alert was issued nationwide after the Noelani vanished.
AMBER ALERT:MPD is requesting the public's assistance in locating two year old Noelani Robinson. Noelani was last seen with Dariaz Higgins and is considered to be in danger. If you have any information please call 911 or 935-7022. pic.twitter.com/Hn4XXDYBfv
— Milwaukee Police (@MilwaukeePolice) March 12, 2019The body was found about 7:00 Friday night by an off-duty public works employee who driving on highway 218 on his way home from work.
"The employee observed something out of the norm," said Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales during a Saturday morning press conference. "Just off the shoulder was a blanket. Inside that blanket, and wrapped in there, was a body of a child we believe is that of Noelani."
The worker then called local police with the information.
Her father was arrested Wednesday and remains in custody in Milwaukee,
Minnesota BCA agents searched an Austin hotel room on Saturday, where Higgins stayed at one point in the last week.
"We belive that this death did not occur in the last 24 hours," Morales said. "She had been there for quite some time, which is consistent with the suspect's time when he was in that area in Minnesota.
Two detectives from Milwaukee are assisting Minnesota authorities in the girl's death.
"The closure is not the closure we like to find," Morales said.
