She noted several incidents, including once when he was about 4 years old and lit his crib on fire, causing the home he lived in to burn. It’s also unknown if his charges will change following the boy’s death.
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A 4-year-old was pronounced dead at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday after being choked-to-death by an 11-year-old at his Palatka home Monday morning.
The arrest report said once deputies got inside the home, they found the 4-year-old wasn’t breathing, had blood coming out of his mouth and didn’t have a pulse.
The 4-year-old child was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital located in Gainesville in critical condition. His mom was able to stop him that time, she said.
Reports go on to say the boy is known to dig up dead farm animals, mutilate them and carry them around as if they were still alive.
His mother told investigators that her son had a lot of anger issues and is on medication.
The documents said the suspect was also accused of choking another child until he was blue in the face.
The 11-year-old boy and his mother are named in the police report, but the AP doesn’t generally name juveniles charged with crimes and is not naming the mother to protect his identity.
He continued to be upset when he was playing with Trahern that night.
As he continued to demonstrate what he’d done he said he “wanted Braydan to come back to life”.
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‘We’re nowhere near determining whether abuse or neglect by the caregivers led to death of this child.’.
