A 3-year-old boy who police say was fatally assaulted was found not breathing in his stepfather’s Grand Prairie apartment, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. The child, Zyair Amerson, was taken by family members on the morning of May 11 to an emergency room at Arlington Memorial Hospital for injuries consistent with assault. The boy […]
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Death penalty case details Biloxi stepfather’s gruesome abuse of toddler in front of mom
Joseph David Heard used one hand to hold the 2-year-old’s hands over his head. He used the other to repeatedly punch the little boy in the gut and the head, according to the child’s mother. When little Hayden Lee Bataille cried out in pain, Heard, 41, got angrier, and the beating only escalated, Hayden’s mother […]