Port Authority police efforts to locate the parents or guardian of a 5-year-old girl found wandering the Port Authority bus terminal Monday, led to discovery of the  child’s murdered mother 34 miles away, in Connecticut and sparked a manhunt for the missing father, authorities said.
Police found the unattended girl on the second-floor concourse of the Midtown bus terminal at about 10:10 a.m. Monday, officials said.
A conversation with the child led cops to find her mother dead, in her Stamford apartment, police said. Authorities are looking to question the little girl’s dad, Elmer Gomez Ruono, 32. 

“We certainly want to talk to him at this point,” Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said.
The victim, a Guatemalan national in her 30s, just moved from New Jersey to the Courtland Glen Cooperative on Courtland Ave. in Stanford over the weekend, according to NBC News York. She is separated from the, Ruono, the child’s father

According to investigators, “The apartment’s not completely unpacked,” adding that they found signs of a struggle.
Her cause of death remains under investigation. A group of friends and relatives were at the apartment Sunday night and she was killed after the guests left, the TV station wrote.
Authorities believe Ruono traveled to Port Authority with the girl and left her there. Surveillance video puts him at the station at 8.30 am, his daughter was found abandoned around 10.00 am.
The child was unharmed and in good health, Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said.
“She’s of course upset being abandoned down there,” Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said. “She was well-fed and clothed.”

Police describe Ruono as 5-foot-8 and about 140 pounds, with long black hair, a medium build and a medium complexion.
Anyone with information is asked to either call Stamford police at (203) 589-3546, or the NYPD Crime Stoppers tip line at (800) 577-TIPS.