He said he lost consciousness and woke up at 6 p.m. the next day.
Finner said Maleah's family had been notified of Friday's developments in the case and he expects a murder charge will be filed in the case.
Remains of a child were found in a bag Friday near the search scene for Maleah Davis in Hope, Arkansas, according to law enforcement officials.
Quanell X said he spoke on Friday in jail with Derion Vence, the ex-fiance of Maleah's mother, who had claimed Maleah was abducted. That basket was later found in the trunk of a Nissan he'd been driving, along with a gas can.
Vence remains in jail at this time, charged with tampering with a human corpse in connection to the girl's disappearance.
He is now a suspect in herdisappearance after telling authorities that Maleah disappeared after he, the young girl and his son were abducted by three men who knocked him unconscious.
"One thing he wanted to make clear to me was what happened to Maleah was an accident", Quanell X said.
Quanell X says Vence confessed he dumped Maleah's body in Arkansas. Quanell X declined to comment on what Vence told him regarding how Maleah had died.
Houston police detectives along with a search and rescue teams immediately headed to Arkansas.
Houston Police Commander Michael Skillern told reporters that a bag containing human remains was found along Interstate 30 in Hope, some 30 miles northeast of the Texas-Arkansas border.
Meanwhile, the Houston apartment the 4-year-old girl was last seen entering is filled with posters, unicorns and flowers.
"I pray that justice will be served where it should be served", said Jermaine Miller, a neighbor, reported KHOU.
He said the men had hit him on the head, knocking him out, and that he had come to alongside a highway hours later.
He then walked to a nearby hospital where he received treatment for injuries he said he sustained in the alleged abduction, and reported Maleah missing, police said.
Vence also was seen on surveillance being dropped off by vehicle at a hospital, the court documents say, contradicting his story that he walked there after the attack.
"Also, blood evidence obtained from Vence's apartment has been linked to Maleah".
The footage shows Maleah entering the apartment, but she never comes back out. He returned a few minutes later and walked out of the apartment carrying cleaning supplies, including bleach, according to court documents. Bowens has not been charged or accused in her daughter's disappearance, but Quanell said he believes she knows what happened to the little girl.
Meanwhile, Vence's mother testified during a Child Protective Services hearing Wednesday that she's intentionally avoided asking her son about Maleah's whereabouts, ABC 13 reported.
