LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – A Las Vegas man was searching for the family of a 1-month-old baby whose ashes were found inside his stolen truck.
Ahmad Ervin discovered the urn filled with ashes after he was reunited with his stolen moving truck in Nevada earlier this week.
On Friday, Ervin said the family of the baby’s ashes contacted him and they were setting up a time to meet.
The situation started last month when a neighbor’s surveillance camera captured someone driving off with a moving truck outside Ervin’s apartment. Ervin is in the process of starting a moving company.
“I had to do my proper due diligence by calling the police. I had to start going into investigating myself because I didn’t want to lose my truck,” Ervin said.
Ervin said he got a tip that the truck was spotted in a parking lot. When he arrived, found the vehicle and opened the door, he said it was full of items that appeared to be stolen.
“Clothes, wallets, purses, everything was still in the truck. Probably about 10 people that might have been victimized during the time that [thieves] had my truck,” he said.
Police arrived, collected evidence inside and left Ervin with his truck and the heap of other peoples’ belongings.
“I was going through the truck and I was cleaning the clothes out. It kind of fell out,” he said.
His sister-in-law, Danielle Belin, had been posting photos of the urn across social media. She had also dealt with the pain of losing and cremating the remains of a young baby and had a mission to find the baby’s mother.
“I know, if it was one of my children’s ashes, I would have just lost my mind with worry because it’s something that you can never get back,” Belin said. “When once you have your child’s ashes, it’s like the most precious thing.”
An inscription on the urn reads, “My little Angel: Marcel Akarhi Alexander,” with a birthday of January 7, 2020, and a date of death of February 20, 2020.
“I had a duty to try to find who the ashes belong to,” Ervin said. “I would want somebody to actually look for me, to try to get it back to me too,” he said.
The general manager for Davis Funeral Home said the baby’s remains were cremated there, and they have reached out to the mother through their contact information.
The manager said if no one claimed the ashes, the funeral home could provide a final resting place for the baby’s urn.
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