8-year-old girl suspected of killing baby at day care
An 8-year-old girl is suspected of killing a 1-year-old boy at their Michigan day care, according to reports.
Little Korey Brown was found lying in a playpen unresponsive when his mother went to pick him up at Keysha Keepers Daycare, a 24-hour center located inside a private home, Friday morning, media reports said.
Emergency responders tried to resuscitate the child by performing CPR but were unsuccessful. Korey was pronounced dead at 8 a.m.
“I thought I saw everything,” Muskegon Police Chief Jeffrey Lewis told MLive. “This one floors me. I can hardly get a grip on it.”
An investigation into the boy’s death revealed that adults were at the day care, but it’s believed that the boy was left unsupervised for an unknown period of time, Lewis told WZZM13.
Investigators believe that Korey started crying and the 8-year-old girl stepped in, which likely led to the boy’s death, Lewis told the WZZM13.
Lewis said Korey had no obvious injuries, but the infant’s mother, Bryanna Reasonover, said she noticed bites and bruises on his face.
“It’s very frustrating to not know what happened, to know that he was suffering when all he probably wanted was his mommy,” Reasonover said, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The 8-year-old is being interviewed by police, Lewis said.
There were two other children at the day care at the time.
A cause of death was not immediately known.