Miami-Dade Police – NBC 6 South Florida

A woman is facing a murder charge after police said she strangled her 8-year-old son then spent several hours running errands with his body in the car in Miami-Dade.

Shaneka Ann McKinzie, 36, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the killing of her 8-year-old son, Jaisyn Burgos, Miami-Dade Police officials said Thursday.

According to police, McKinzie brought Burgos to Hialeah Hospital Tuesday evening. The child, who was unconscious, was pronounced dead at the hospital.

A medical examiner’s autopsy determined he’d been strangled to death, police said.

McKinzie later confessed to investigators that she had been plotting to kill her son for the previous two days, police said.

At some point, as he was asleep in the rear passenger seat of her car, she used a tablecloth to suffocate and strangle him until he became unresponsive, police said.

McKinzie then drove around various parts of the county running errands with her son’s body in the car, police said.

McKinzie, of Sikeston, Missouri, was arrested and booked into jail. Attorney information wasn’t available.