A 3-month-old baby was found dead near a Bronx Expressway

Police arrested the father of a 3-month-old girl who was found dead in the woods near a highway in the Bronx on Sunday evening.

The baby, identified by police as Genevieve Comager, was pronounced dead at the scene in a wooded, trash-strewn area near West 161st Street and the Major Deegan Expressway, police said.

Genevieve’s father, Damion Comager, 23, was arrested Monday night and charged with murder, manslaughter and concealment of a human corpse. Police said a 20-year-old woman, whom a law enforcement official said was the mother, was also in custody and was questioned Monday about the death.

A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office said the baby’s cause of death was still under investigation Monday night.

The discovery was made after a family member concerned about the baby called municipal child protective services, the law enforcement official said. Police found the baby’s body around 8:24 p.m

The baby’s last address, according to police, was a shelter on University Avenue in the Bronx.

Zukhra Abdullayeva, 29, has been living at the shelter since December and did not know the family, but said there had been no problems at the shelter since she moved there. Ms. Abdullayeva, who is a mother herself, started crying when she heard about the baby’s death.

“It’s terrible,” she said.

It was the second time in a week that police in the Bronx arrested a parent over the death of a child. On Sunday, police said the mother of a 6-year-old girl who died last week had been charged with endangering the well-being of her two surviving children.

Lynija Eason, 26, has not been charged in the death of 6-year-old Jalayah Eason, whom police found unconscious in her Bronx apartment on Friday with bruises on her wrists and torso. But Mrs. Eason, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, were evicted from their home, according to a law enforcement official.

Ms Eason was charged with two counts of child endangerment, police said.

The medical examiner’s office was also still investigating Jalayah’s cause of death on Monday, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the office.

Nancy Wartik reporting contributed.