TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)- Tucson police are investigating the death of a child that they say was not a natural death.
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Rene E. Barrios, the mother’s live-in boyfriend, is being held at Pima County jail on $750,000 bail. He is accused of first-degree murder in connection with the child’s death, Tucson police said.
Sgt. Decio Hopffer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman, said he couldn’t provide any additional details about what led to the child’s death.
The baby was identified as Jaden A. Encinas. He would have been three-weeks-old Monday.
About 7:30 p.m. Friday, police officers and Fire Department paramedics were called to a residence, where they found the child unconscious and not breathing, police said.
The boy was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
The infant’s mother left Encinas in Barrios’s care while she was out of the home, a court document said.
The baby was crying and Barrios shook him until he stopped, the document said.
Barrios then put the boy back in his bed and when he checked later, the infant wasn’t breathing, according to the document.
Despite the information in the court document, which was filed shortly after Barrios’s arrest, Hopffer said investigators don’t believe the child was shaken to death.
Hopffer could not discuss details of the injuries the child suffered because the investigation is ongoing.
But a police spokesman said a day after the child’s death Encinas’s injuries were severe and clearly the result of abuse.
“The death was not accidental and not a natural death,” Tucson police Officer Frank Amado said.
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