Alexis "Lexie" Glover died from drowning and exposure to the cold after being dumped in a creek last month, according to a state medical examiner's report.
The case of the 13-year-old has officially been ruled a homicide, and the girl's adoptive mother -- charged with felony child neglect and filing a false police report in her disappearance -- will likely soon face a murder charge.
"We will present additional charges to the grand jury on March 2," Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert said Thursday. He would not say what those charges might be.
Her mother, 45-year-old Alfreedia Gregg-Glover, is out of jail on bond and staying with family in the Chesapeake area.
Police said she told authorities she took Lexie to Central Library in Manassas on the morning of Jan. 7, and then the girl ran away.
A two-day search involving more than 300 law enforcement officers ensued.
Police were concerned because Glover told them Lexie suffered from severe autism and sickle cell anemia. Ebert said he didn't know details of the girl's medical condition.
What is known is that Lexie frequently ran away. She was fitted with a GPS bracelet through a Prince William Sheriff's Office program to locate her when she disappeared. That bracelet was found near the library.
On Jan. 9, a jogger in a golf course neighborhood on Greatbridge Road and Asdee Lane in Woodbridge, found the girl in a creek in about a foot of water.
According to court documents, police believe that Lexie had an unspecified medical emergency around 7 a.m. on Jan. 7 and Gregg-Glover did not get her proper medical attention.
Police believe she instead dumped her daughter in the creek.
She was jailed and then released on a $5,000 bond on Feb. 5.
Lexie Glover would have turned 14 next Thursday.
Uriah Kiser can be reached at 703-878-8065.
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