Police in Fremont, California arrested foster parents Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell on suspicion of murdering their foster son Hasanni Campbell, authorities said.

According to reports, Rose told police the 5-year-old disappeared on August 10, after he left the boy outside his car in the parking lot of a shoe store where his fiancée, Jennifer Campbell works.

He said he went to the store’s front entrance to ask Campbell to open the back door and when he returned, the boy was gone.

After the boy disappeared, the couple made tearful public pleas and held vigils outside the upscale shoe store pleading for the safe return of the boy.

A spokesperson for Oakland police department told reports, “This is not a missing person case anymore.  This is a homicide investigation. We do believe Hasanni Campbell is dead.”

Ten days before the child disappeared, authorities said Ross sent an expletive-filled text message to his fiancée threatening to leave the boy alone on a train station platform.

Ross said he sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with Campbell.

The couple were arrested separately yesterday.

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