Houston police have detained but not yet charged the mother and father of a fourth-month-old infant who was discovered dead after being placed to sleep in a drawer.

According to the police, the baby was put to sleep in a drawer when the family was staying at a Days Inn in Texas. The infant had been “dead for some time” when they discovered her.

“Brooklyn” was the baby’s name, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. Authorities warned it could take weeks to complete the autopsy and identify the cause of death, but few information have been made public.

According to the police, the child’s body showed “no obvious trauma.” But, as is the case with any child’s unexpected death, the homicide and child abuse squads were brought in.

This completes a horrific weekend of fatalities in Texas, as strong storms decimated numerous regions. A hospitalised father was devastated to hear that his wife and two children perished in a terrible tornado that destroyed their house.

The family of Refugio Esparaza was affected by the severe storms that devastated Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, leaving a path of destruction in their wake and taking at least 18 lives. When the twister hit their home, his wife Laura and their children, 9-year-old Marco and 15-year-old Miranda, perished tragically.

The tornado’s fierce force threw the twins across the street, and their dead bodies were found under trucks that had been thrown across the road. This was the family’s fate as the tornado destroyed a mobile home park in its path as it ripped through a remote area of Cooke County, Texas, near the Oklahoma border.

The small country’s seven inhabitants perished. Jesus Cancino, a family member, told reporters graphic details about the horrifying seconds the storm struck.

“My brother-in-law told me it took less than a minute,” he claimed. He claimed that after he lay there, the electricity abruptly turned out, and he didn’t know anything more until he woke up in the hospital this morning.