Sandy Springs Police made welfare check day before baby was found dead

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A welfare check was made at a business by Sandy Springs police just one day before the tragic death of one-year-old Nirvana Oliver, Sandy Springs police told Atlanta News First.

On Wednesday, Sandy Springs police responded to a business on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road regarding a welfare check on a woman and a juvenile.

Sandy Springs police released the following statement to Atlanta News First.

According to Sandy Springs police, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office recommended that the original charges were amended. Asia Calabrese-Lewis now faces malice murder and the original cruelty to children and felony murder charges “will be dropped” at her first court appearance on Monday.

Oliver was found dead at the bottom of a pond in a Sandy Springs executive park Thursday night, police said.

It was not an accident,” said Sergeant Matt McGinnis with the Sandy Springs Police Department.

The arrest warrant obtained from Sandy Springs Police Department states that Asia was seen on surveillance video around 6:12 p.m. walking with Nirvana at 2 Concourse Parkway down an embankment and through some bushes toward a retention pond. The video then shows Asia walking into the water and sitting there for about six minutes before she is seen on the same video around 6: 18 p.m. walking back up towards Peachtree Dunwoody Road by herself towards the parking decks. When the Sandy Springs police arrived Asia was found naked and rubbing up against cars in the parking deck, having some sort of episode, police previously told Atlanta News First that

“The father of the child arrived and asked where the child was. At that time, the mother made the proclamation, ‘At the bottom of the pool,’” said Sgt. McGinnis.

Sandy Springs police and firefighters immediately started checking all pools and bodies of water in the area. Oliver was eventually found face down and not breathing in a retention pond, says police. She was rushed to Scottish Rite, where she was pronounced dead.

“The father of the child arrived and asked where the child was. At that time, the mother made the proclamation, ‘At the bottom of the pool,’” said Sgt. McGinnis.

RELATED: Grandfather of 1-year-old found in Sandy Springs pond releases statement

Oliver’s grandfather previously released the following statement:

The Georgia Department of Family & Children Services released the following statement:

Lewis is due in court on Monday morning.

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