A file crime scene image from a shooting in West Philadelphia in 2024. Read more Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

by Emily Bloch Published Aug. 10, 2025, 4:40 p.m. ET

A Havertown woman was arrested in Maine after, officials say, her 3-year-old daughter was found dead in her car Saturday night.

According to a statement from local police, Kelly Brown, 40, was arrested early Sunday morning at around 5 a.m. and charged with manslaughter.

Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office law enforcement located Brown after receiving a request for a welfare check from family members one day earlier, the statement said.

Saturday evening, police responded to a business in Milford where a car registered in Brown’s name was located with a 3-year-old girl, later identified as Brown’s daughter, dead in

See Full Page