BABY'S DEATH INVESTIGATED AS HOMICIDE AFTER AUTOPSY.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer The death of a 7-month-old boy is being investigated as a homicide after an autopsy showed that the infant suffered a head injury before he died, sheriff's officials said. The baby boy was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. April 2 at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, where his 22-year-old mother brought him in cardiac arrest cardiac arrest n. Abbr. CA A sudden cessation of cardiac function, resulting in loss of effective circulation. Cardiac arrest A condition in which the heart stops functioning. . ``We found an injury that was initially not detected, which leads us to believe that was the cause of death,'' said homicide Detective Joel Brown Joel Brown (born 31 January 1980) is an American hurdler. He finished sixth at the 2005 World Championships and seventh at the 2005 World Athletics Final. His personal best time is 13.22 seconds, achieved in July 2005 at the Bislett Games. . Officials said the mother, a Lancaster resident, had taken the infant to the Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. Clinic earlier that day and said he had suffered from flulike symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting vomiting, ejection of food and other matter from the stomach through the mouth, often preceded by nausea. The process is initiated by stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain by nerve impulses from the gastrointestinal tract or other part of the body. for several days. After her doctor visit, the mother returned home but later took the baby to the hospital emergency room. ``It's a tough case,'' Brown said. ``Any time a child has problems, it makes it tough.'' Officials said they had initially listed the baby's death as being from natural causes, but an autopsy indicated he had suffered a major head injury. They are now trying to determine how he was injured and by whom. ``With babies, it's hard to determine the injuries unless it's obvious,'' Brown said. ``Babies are so fragile.'' |
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