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Police in New Jersey are investigating how the bodies of a 35-year-old mother and her 11-year-old son ended up in a pond earlier this week, PEOPLE confirms.
On Tuesday evening, officers were dispatched to Grace Lord Park in Boonton after receiving reports of an unattended child. They arrived to find a 6-year-old boy in a car, calling out for his mother. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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The boy was unharmed, according to the Essex County Prosecutor s Office.
Officers followed footprints from the car to the nearby pond, where the little boy s mother, Warda Syed, and brother, Uzair Ahmed, were found dead.