Boyfriend Arrested in Death of Infant
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the beating death of his live-in girlfriend’s 1-year-old boy, a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said Sunday.
Deputies went to a home in the 11000 block of Woodside Avenue in Santee about 3:30 p.m. Saturday after paramedics were called to help a baby who had stopped breathing, the spokesman said.
The baby, Richard White, was placed on life support at Children’s Hospital with numerous internal injuries, and died about 10 p.m., a hospital spokesman said.
Mark Broocker, 27, who lived at the house with the baby and the baby’s mother, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon on suspicion of beating the baby, the sheriff’s spokesman said.
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