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CNN) -- Murder and rape charges will be filed against a North Carolina man in the death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, police said Thursday.

Mario Andrette McNeill had already been charged with kidnapping the Fayetteville, North Carolina, girl. She was reported missing last week, and her body was found Monday beside a road near Sanford, about 30 miles northwest of Fayetteville.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate the child was asphyxiated, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters Thursday, but testing is still being completed and a final report has not been issued.

McNeill will be charged with first-degree murder and rape of a child, Bergamine said. The new arrest warrants were being served Thursday night.

The girl's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses. Police have said they believe Davis was prostituting the child.

According to police, surveillance video taken November 10 from a hotel in Sanford, North Carolina, shows Shaniya in the company of McNeill.

Authorities had said Wednesday they would need to determine where Shaniya was killed before filing additional charges. Fayetteville is in Cumberland County, while Sanford is in Lee County. Bergamine said Thursday jurisdiction in the case would remain in Cumberland County. "We started it from the beginning and wanted to finish it out," he said.
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Police still are not sure exactly where Shaniya was killed, Bergamine said. Police earlier had said they believe the child was alive when she left the hotel.

"Current charges on Ms. Davis are standing as they are right now," Bergamine said. But he told reporters the investigation was ongoing.

He and other officers spoke about the emotional toll the investigation has taken on them. Grief counseling has been under way for officers at the department, he said.

"It's been a tough case," said Fayetteville Police Capt. Charles Kimball, the toughest in his 14 years, he said. "Our mission was to find Shaniya and we did it."

"This case here has reached out and touched all of us," Bergamine said.

Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful appeal before reporters Tuesday afternoon, asking that "everybody makes it a point not to ignore, to look past a situation where a person, a child, or anybody might be in danger ... so that we don't have another tragedy like Shaniya."

The girl went to her mother's last month, he said.

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We all knew this was the next part of the story....so sad

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this is just too much... more proof that giving birth does not make you a mother... I hope they get the death penalty... I think I might attend... RIP Shaniya, you are in the best place possible...

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I don't understand how anybody can hurt a child, much less their own child. I hope this sick bitch rots in hell for all eternity, she's truly evil.

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Sick bastard!

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smh, no words, just.......

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Of course it was by asphyxiation he had to smother her cries or else someone HAD to have heard her cries in that hotel room....I can't read anything else pertaining to this, my mind starts to wander and wonder how she was feeling and terrified having gone through that myself as a child....I swear I don't know how her father is not going after that man and especially her mother...I'd already be in jail for double murder....

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This story has touched me also..... been praying for her soul & her family. I can't even speak on what these people deserve. They did the unthinkable and now justice MUST be served, no plea deals here.

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I been crying off and on about this all week.. Her own MOTHER! I just can't and will never get it. If things get that far, I'm gonna go to the trial to personally see these fuckin dirtbags off to exile and obscurity. They deserve the same deaths that those 2 murderers got on Law Abiding Citizen, I pity no fool! Give ME the first stone, cause I will throw it at that bitch!!! ******sorry yall I'm just really upset********

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I cried about this all day tuesday and then to see her poor father and brother on Nacey Grace tpre me to peices.. Im soo sad for the family who loved shaniya. My prayers are w them at this weak moment

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i happen to be from north carolina and i stay about 20 minutes away from fayetteville where shaniya lived this is truly a sad thing i mean how can grown ass man want to have sex with a little girl its so sick!!

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What kind of world do we live in when there is actually a market for prostituting a little baby ? People are sick ......... lately I've been giving up on humanity .

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It's so terrible...it happens all over the world. There are markets for it everywhere..I'm glad it's being brought to light but soo sad for that poor baby. Unfortunately she is only one of many.

Cookie Pie said:
What kind of world do we live in when there is actually a market for prostituting a little baby ? People are sick ......... lately I've been giving up on humanity .

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