She attempted to drown him earlier that night, but a passer-by rescued him, prosecutors said (via toofab)
Police said Ripley broke down when they told her they had witnesses who seen her near the lake with the boy.
Investigators later found a video showing Ripley pushing him into a canal at 7.30 pm on Thursday, but he was rescued by passers-by. After he was pulled out of the water, his mother pushed him back in an hour later to his death, prosecutors said. "This time, unfortunately, there was no one there to save him," Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, PerAntoinette Uribe, whose child was a classmate of Alejandro's, was among the dozens of people at a memorial on Friday while detectives were still investigating, who believed he had been murdered by two abductors."Every time I saw Alejandro he was like the happiest kid ever... Never a frown.
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