Mother Charged With Murder After Her Young Daughter And Son Were Found Dead Inside Car

A New Jersey mother has been arrested for murder after her two young children were found dead in the backseat of a car on Tuesday, Nov. 9.

The mother, 36-year-old Yuhwei Chou is facing murder charges after her daughter 7-year-old Samantha Ross, and her son, 10-month-old Paul Ross were found dead, bound, and restrained in their booster seats in the back of a vehicle in Somerset County, the Associated Press reported.

According to the police, officers responded to Mountain View Road at about 7:40 a.m. on Tuesday, after receiving reports of a disabled motor vehicle abandoned on the road

The neighbors are devastated after knowing what happened to the little girl and her baby brother.

"They really kept to themselves," one person said.

"I never saw any sign of her being a bad mom," Austen Wang-Bailey said.

"Why did she do that?” Helen Bailey said, crying. “I never even saw the little boy. I understand he was a beautiful little boy. The girl, she was a beautiful little girl. The cutest little thing."

The shocking discovery was made after a tow truck driver found the vehicle with the children inside and alerted the police.

"He was shook up. He said he found a lady in the ditch and said he asked her if she was all right and she said no, I think. And then he saw the babies and then he called the cops right away," Robert Long, father of the tow truck driver said.

Chou has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. She will be booked after a medical evaluation, authorities said.

Neighbor, Bailey said they’ve seen police officers responding to the family’s home before, but did not know why they were there.

"Over the years, I had seen some, like, police cars would come occasionally. We never knew what any of that was about," Wang-Bailey said.

Bailey says if they knew the kids were in danger, they would have stepped in to help.

"What could I have done? What could I have said?" Bailey said.

The cause of the children’s deaths and the motive are unclear at the time of this writing. A further probe is underway, police said.