DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The boy and girl whose bodies were found stuffed into luggage and thrown into a south Florida canal are believed to be the children of a woman found dead in a trash area last summer, police said Friday.

Investigators said they have positively identified the children’s bodies found Wednesday as siblings, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju’tyra Allen, 6. Police believe their mother, Felicia Brown, is the woman whose body was found in a West Palm Beach trash area last August.

Police said Brown was identified in part because she had tattoos bearing her children’s names.

Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a spokeswoman for the Delray Beach Police, said the three lived with Clem Beauchamp, who investigators say is their only suspect in the deaths. He has not been charged with their slayings, but is being held on an unrelated weapons charge.

Police said they didn’t expect any charges in the case for several days, at the earliest. Meantime, the release of the victims’ identities Friday horrified friends and relatives, including Brown’s sister, 22-year-old Margaret Gissone.