An ex-boyfriend of University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling is testing his DNA to determine whether he is the father of the newborn found dead in her closet last month.
Snelling’s former beau, 21-year-old Izaiah Hall, gave police a DNA sample to determine whether it matches the baby boy his ex-sweetheart is accused of wrapping in a towel, stashing in a garbage bag and hiding in her closet at her off-campus residence in Lexington, his father told The Post.
“Lexington police had him come down to the station to give a sample,” Hall’s father, Justin Smith, 45, said, declining to answer any additional questions.
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“I don’t know anything on this and we don’t know if Izaiah is the father or not.”
Hall, a hulking quarterback at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., dated the alleged killer mom before she started seeing former college basketballer Conner Jordan, the Daily Mail reported.
While it remains unclear who fathered the dead infant, Hall refused to confirm to the outlet, which first reported news of the paternity test, when his son’s relationship with Snelling ended.
“I don’t really want to go into any more detail at this stage,” he said.
Jordan, who once played basketball for King University and Tusculum University in Tennessee, was featured in a handful of posts on the 21-year-old cheerleader’s social media accounts posted in the months before her Aug. 31 arrest.
It’s unclear when they started dating and Jordan appears to have deleted his social media accounts in the wake of his girlfriend’s headline-making bust.
Snelling was charged with concealing the birth of an infant, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse, charges of which she has since pleaded not guilty.
The incoming college senior, who was a member of the STUNT team, was cuffed after cops responded to a report of an unresponsive infant at the home.
She reportedly admitted to police she covered up the birth by cleaning all the evidence and tossing the supplies in the same black trash bag as the newborn.
An autopsy has since deemed the baby’s cause of death inconclusive.
