A missing mother found dead in her car trunk on Tuesday morning is said to have died from a gunshot wound, according to law enforcement sources.

At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, St. Louis Police Capt. Michael Sack stated that there were indications of trauma to the body of Ebony Jackson. Although Sack declined to get into specifics, law enforcement officials stated that the gunshot wound behind Jackson's ear was determined through an autopsy as the cause of death.

Four days after the late Jackson's 3-month-old boy was found abandoned in a Breckenridge Hills apartment complex, the 30-year-old Oklahoma City mother's body was located in her vehicle's trunk in St. Louis.

A short time after hearing of her cousin's death Tondra Moseley of Los Angeles, Calif., spoke to St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the horrific news:

"I'm numb. This was an only child to her mother, and now there is a baby with no mother after only three months of giving birth. For her life to be taken like this; what makes a person want to take the life of another person? What makes you go that far? What was the gain? What was the purpose?"

The police were aware that Jackson's 2004 Mitsubishi Galant had a GPS tracker installed. Investigators eventually received a court order to activate it, which is how they discovered Jackson's body inside the car parked at the 4400 block of Elmbank Avenue in northern St. Louis.

The Galant was towed to the St. Louis police crime lab in Clayton at roughly noon on Wednesday. The Breckenridge Hills police department was granted a search warrant to open the trunk just before 5 p.m.

At the time of publication, the county police are still examining the car for evidence while the city police conduct the homicide investigation.

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