"Baby Doe" - Found deceased at WalMart - Muskogee OK

Shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday, Walmart employees found a baby dead in the toilet in the Women’s restroom at the store, said Muskogee Police investigator Josh Jenkins.

The infant’s body was turned over to the state medical examiner’s office, Jenkin’s said.

The suspected mother of the child was still being questioned at 10:45 p.m., Jenkins said. She was not under arrest at that time.

Police in Muskogee say a baby found dead in a Wal-Mart bathroom was probably dead when it was born.Investigator Lynn Hamlin told the Muskogee Phoenix that preliminary information from the medical examiner is that the baby was not full term. He said it appears to have been 20 to 24 weeks gestation.A store employee found the infant's body in a toilet in the back of the store Tuesday.Hamlin said police have questioned a 23-year-old woman believed to be the mother - but she has not been arrested and her name hasn't been released.