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Last updated on Friday, November 14, 2014
(VIGO CO.) - A 10-week-old boy is dead and the Vigo County Prosecutor’s Office preliminarily charged the one caring for him with murder.
Police say Anthony Wilson was babysitting David Hires on Nov. 7. The baby was his girlfriend's grandson.
WTHI reports that the infant's mother and grandmother said they left the 10-week-old in Wilson's care while they went to the gas station. They said they were only gone 10 minutes when they returned to the Woodley Avenue home and found the small infant gasping for air.
They found Wilson holding the baby and rubbing David's chest. He appeared frantic and was telling them David wasn't breathing right.
Wilson told police he was holding the child on his chest, then all of a sudden, he started breathing funny and gasping for air.
Emergency officials took David to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, where he later died.
The Marion County coroner's office ruled his death a homicide and the cause as blunt force trauma to the head. The coroner found a severe skull fracture among other injuries.
"The doctor that performed the autopsy made the statement that a skull fracture of this sort would be something that you would expect in a severe car accident case and/or a baby like this being dropped from at least six feet directly on its head. So we're talking a fracture that would take quite a bit of trauma and force for that to happen," said Terry Modesitt, Vigo County prosecutor. "They found the injury occurred immediately because the child had just started showing symptoms so it wasn't something that occurred hours before or days before."
Wilson told police repeatedly he didn't know how David got his injuries, saying, "I did not hurt him."
Both the mother and grandmother say the baby was fine when they left him with Wilson.
The Vigo County prosecutor's office has until Monday to formalize charges against Wilson.
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