The cost of the funeral is expected to be about $4,500.

“I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye. What happened to her was tragic. I wanted her to have a funeral that would be as beautiful as she was,” Shaq said in the statement.

According to media reports, the child was killed by 29-year old Mario McNeill on the same day that she was found to be missing.

The 5-year-old’s body was found about 6 miles from he last known location. Security footage captured her image with a man believed to be McNeill at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford.

Her mother, Antoinette Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.

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The 5-year-old’s body was found about 6 miles from he last known location. Security footage captured her image with a man believed to be McNeill at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford.

Shaniya, who had previously lived with her father and aunt out of state, had recently moved in with her mother. Those who knew her said Antoinette had turned her life around and was holding a steady job, with a place of her own.

Arrest documents reveal that Shaniya’s mother “knowingly provide[d] Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude” and she “permit[ted] an act of prostitution.”

The body of the missing little girl, Shaniya Davis, has been found in Fayetteville.

Five year-old Shaniya Davis was found dead in an area near Highway 87 south and Walker Road, just south of Sanford.

Shaniya Davis was last seen alive at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford last week, the morning her mother Antoinette reported her missing from their Fayetteville home. The surveillance video from the Comfort Suites hotel showed Shaniya being carried by Mario McNeill, 29.

The police located little Shanyia’s body just seven miles from the hotel, according to the AP.

“We were hoping that someone could carry her home,” said Syd Severe, 42, a volunteer who came from Raleigh to help with the search. “It’s just sick.”

The girls mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, was charged last week with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.

According to arrest documents cited by The Fayetteville Observer, Davis “knowingly provide Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude” and she “permit an act of prostitution.”

Authorities also charged Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, with kidnapping.

Other charges for the pair are likely pending.

Shaniya Davis Found Dead