Murder charges were filed early this afternoon afternoon against a 26-year-old Hawthorne man suspected of beating his girlfriend's two-year-old son to death over the weekend.
Long Beach Homicide investigators took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Long Beach Branch Office late this morning, said Officer Jackie Bezart, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The filing was entered just in time for Ernest to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. at the Long Beach court, authorities said.
Had Ernest not been charged today, authorities would have had to release him.
He is suspected of killing, Deandre Fitzgerald Green, who was taken to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center by his mother and her boyfriend around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, police said.
The child was unconscious and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Authorities noticed evidence of abuse, including significant bruising on the child's body. Ernest Jr., was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder, Bezart said.
He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Bezart said the investigation is ongoing and detectives believe witnesses who live near the mother's West Long Beach home in the 3100 block of Springdale Drive may have heard the child being abused.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Homicide Detective's Mark McGuire or Greg Krabbe at 562-570-7244.
Long Beach Homicide investigators took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Long Beach Branch Office late this morning, said Officer Jackie Bezart, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The filing was entered just in time for Ernest to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. at the Long Beach court, authorities said.
Had Ernest not been charged today, authorities would have had to release him.
He is suspected of killing, Deandre Fitzgerald Green, who was taken to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center by his mother and her boyfriend around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, police said.
The child was unconscious and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Authorities noticed evidence of abuse, including significant bruising on the child's body. Ernest Jr., was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder, Bezart said.
He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Bezart said the investigation is ongoing and detectives believe witnesses who live near the mother's West Long Beach home in the 3100 block of Springdale Drive may have heard the child being abused.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Homicide Detective's Mark McGuire or Greg Krabbe at 562-570-7244.
Now they have him, can they keep him? Sounds like many blew the whistle on this scum, but were ignored. Now there is another innocent child tortured and dead.