LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they have located the body of 2-year-old Amari Nicholson. LVMPD said the body was located Wednesday near the 400 block of E. Twain. near Paradise Road.

Did they find Amari?

Las Vegas police recovered the body of a missing toddler who was last seen on May 5, a day after authorities accused his mother's boyfriend of killing him. The remains of Amari Nicholson were found Wednesday, PEOPLE confirms — less than a mile from where he was last seen alive.

How did Amari died?

Amari's mother, Tayler Nicholson, reported the boy missing on May 5. His body was found a week later on May 12. During an interview with police on May 11, Rhodes admitted to police he had killed the boy. Rhodes hit Amari three or four times with his fist on the morning of May 5 inside a unit at the Emerald Suites.