A newborn girl later identified in reports only as Baby Girl Salazar was born and died on July 6, 2016, in the bathroom of an apartment on South Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas. Police found the infant deceased in a bathtub after hospital staff notified them when the baby’s 20-year-old mother, Veronica Salazar, arrived at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with severe bleeding and disclosed she had just delivered a baby she had kept secret from her family.

Hospital and coroner findings say the infant had been born alive, with air in her lungs and stomach, and had cried briefly. Veronica Salazar told investigators she cut the umbilical cord with a disposable razor, wrapped the newborn in a towel, placed her in the tub, and then closed the shower curtain before asking her own mother to call for help for the bleeding. The Clark County coroner ruled the death birth asphyxia and classified it a homicide. Veronica Salazar was arrested, booked into the Clark County Detention Center after hospital release, and later indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge.

If anyone knew the family or has information about the events surrounding this birth, please share what is known with investigators.