BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Police have confirmed the U.S. Attorney's office is now the lead agency in the investigation of the two burned bodies found in a car on Tonawanda Street.
Police confirmed in September that there were two bodies in a burned car found behind a warehouse on Tonawanda Street in Buffalo's Black Rock neighborhood.
Police said that the vehicle completely incinerated, with nothing more than ashes for contents and that it is now considered a homicide case.
They confirmed the burned vehicle is the same one rented to the parents of Noelvin Valentin, who was discovered asleep in a cardboard box on a porch on Potomac Avenue that same morning. The family had traveled to Buffalo with a third person. The parents of Noelvin Valentin and that third person are still missing.
Police have not identified the two bodies found in the vehicle.
Police said they are seeking two people of interest shown in surveillance video leading a child, believed to be the one later found on a west side porch on Monday, from the vehicle as it bursts into flames.
2 On Your Side has reached out to the the U.S. Attorney's Office to see what updates there are to the investigation.