The black fugitive father of a 2-year-old girl found dead in a car seat in a creek has been charged with murder after an autopsy showed that she had drowned

African-American Arthur Morgan III remained at large despite a dragnet involving 13 law enforcement agencies including the FBI. Authorities believe that the 27-year-old Morgan, of Ocean Township, may have left the state. The victim, Tierra Morgan-Glover, lived in Lakehurst with her mother and was having a court-approved visit with her father, but he never took her back. The girl's body was discovered in Wall Township, about 20 miles north of where she lived. The toddler was discovered by children playing in Shark River Park, said Christopher Gramiccioni, a spokesman for the Monmouth County prosecutor's office. The children notified park rangers, who called police. A 911 call was received by police saying that student-aged children came across what they were concerned was a child in the creek, Gramiccioni said. Police found the girl's body, still strapped in the car seat, partly submerged in the creek, a tributary of the nearby Shark River. The creek is 3 to 7 feet deep in the area where the body was found, near a roadway overpass about 15 feet above the creek. An autopsy conducted by the county medical examiner's office determined the cause of death as homicidal violence, including submersion in water. A warrant from Ocean County charging Morgan with child endangerment and interference with custody had been issued before the girl's body was found. His last permanent address was at an apartment in Eatontown, but Morgan had been staying on and off with a friend in Ocean Township, just outside Asbury Park, the prosecutor added.