Laramie County Coroner Rebecca Reid says her office is still waiting on autopsy results to come back on Athian Rivera, the missing 2-year-old Cheyenne boy whose body was found in a dumpster near his home at 514 Desmet Drive on Feb. 19. Nothing back yet, Reid told KGAB Radio Wednesday, adding that she didn t have any idea when to expect anything.
Reid says it s normal protocol for a case to take six to eight weeks for findings in determining the cause and manner of death.
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Police have recommended 27-year-old Wyatt Lamb who d been unlawfully living with Rivera s mother since August after allegedly strangling her in February 2020 be charged with murder and aggravated child abuse in Rivera s death, but District Attorney Leigh Anne Grant Manlove s office has yet to file any charges in the case.
Cheyenne police say an autopsy on the body of 2-year-old Athian Rivera has found no conclusive cause of death for the toddler. We did receive autopsy results, but there wasn t a conclusive cause of death or anything like that, Public Information Officer Alex Farkas told KGAB Radio Monday afternoon.
Rivera s body was discovered in a dumpster near his home at 514 Desmet Drive on the afternoon of Feb. 19, just hours after he was reported missing.
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His mother s boyfriend, 27-year-old Wyatt Lamb, was contacted at the residence and arrested later that evening on unrelated warrants.
On Feb. 23, police announced they were recommending murder and aggravated child abuse charges against Lamb, but the Laramie County District Attorney s Office has yet to file any charges in the case.
Cheyenne police are now recommending murder and aggravated child abuse charges against a 27-year-old Cheyenne man in the death of his girlfriend s 2-year-old son.
Police were called to Wyatt Lamb s apartment at 514 Desmet Drive around 1 p.m. Friday after Athian Rivera, his girlfriend s son, went missing. The boy s body was later found in a nearby dumpster.
Lamb was taken into police custody around 6:15 p.m. on an unrelated felony warrant for failure to appear and a misdemeanor warrant for parole violation.
Get our free mobile app Detectives have now forwarded an affidavit of probable cause to the Laramie County District Attorney supporting additional charges, police spokeswoman Alex Farkas said Tuesday afternoon, adding I cannot share specifics.