Arizona man Antwaun Travon, 20, told police he hit and burned ex-girlfriend Jasmine Dunbar, 21, who was found dead Thursday
The body of a Arizona mother who had gone missing for two days has been found, according to police, as her ex-boyfriend admits to hitting her, setting her body on fire, and watching the flames blaze before he fled the scene.
Jasmine Dunbar, 21, of Avondale, Arizona went missing on Tuesday along with her seven-month old baby girl.
The two were last seen with her ex-boyfriend Antwaun Travon, 20, for a paternity test.
Alarm was raised when the baby was found abandoned on the side of the road still in its car seat on Tuesday evening.
The child was safely returned to its family thanks to a backpack it was left with that held Dunbar’s identification.
The family then launched a search for its mother saying, ‘Jasmine would never leave her baby’s side for anything’ as said to ABC15.
Her family reported that she left her home around 7:30pm. Three hours later her baby was found in her car alone.
Jasmine Dunbar, 21, of Avondale, Arizona went missing on Tuesday along with her seven-month old baby girl stirring alarm in her family
Her body was found Thursday morning with burn marks on Camelback Road in Phoenix
On Thursday morning, police found a body near 107th Avenue and Camelback Road in Phoenix. Police believe it is tentatively Dunbar’s body. Her body had sustained significant burns.
Authorities await official identification of the body through scientific analysis, according to ABC15.
Speaking to detectives Tuesday, Travon said that after he picked up Dunbar on Tuesday he allegedly ‘had a physical altercation’ with her and ‘punched her a number of times with his fist’.
He claimed that he left her in a field near where her body was found and that ‘she was still alive then’.
Scene of the crime: Dunbar’s body was found here charred. Travon told police he allegedly hit her then left her body on the ground here
He left the scene to drop off her seven-month-old child in a different neighborhood and returned to Dunbar to allegedly pour gasoline on her body and light a cigarette on her
Travon, pictured above, was last seen with Dunbar and her baby as they reunited for him to take a paternity test. The results of the test are not clear
Travon (right) allegedly told police what he had done to the body. Police also found a gasoline can in his possession. He was arrested on Thursday and booked into Maricopy County Jail
He then fled the scene and dropped off the baby in a different neighborhood.
He claimed he returned to Dunbar’s body afterwards where he burned her body.
He said he allegedly put a piece of paper on her body and ‘poured gasoline on her’. ‘He then set it afire with a cigarette’ and watched as her body burned and the fire put itself out.
Travon was arrested on Thursday based on evidence – including a gasoline can- found by police.
He was arrested on one count of first-degree murder, one count of kidnapping, one count of abandonment of a body and one count of child abuse and has been booked into Maricopa County Jail.