Jim Leljedal
Jim Leljedal
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It looks like he tried to hide from the fire in a back room and that turned out to be a fatal error because the apartment filled with smoke and he was overcome.
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Certainly he should have been taken to a hospital and he wasn't. Certainly, people do survive severe burns, but they need to get to a burn center. In this case that care was deliberately denied.
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If they'd reported these burns immediately, he would have been taken to a burn center and treated. It's a question for the medical examiner whether he could have been saved. We've certainly seen people survive burns before with proper treatment.
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She punished him by filling the bathtub with scalding water and submerging him in it. After she inflicted these serious, serious burns on him, she turned him back over to his grandmother. The grandmother took him home on Christmas Day and kept him for a week, allowing him to suffer and gradually die.
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The grandmother decided that on Christmas Day, she would allow the boy to be with his mother.
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The grandmother, Annie Williams, had been charged by us with manslaughter, but the grand jury is returned now with a charge of murder in the first degree.
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We were not exactly on the cutting edge of that technology. We waited until it was pretty well proven and perfected before we went with it. It's a real good crime prevention tool because we can eliminate the middleman, the dispatcher. If a deputy wanted to check a tag, he had to go over the radio and get in line because that dispatcher is handling other requests and it might take a few minutes to run a tag.
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For a week, the grandmother applied powder and ointment to these severe burns, and the boy just got worse and sicker.
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It's one of the most challenging neighborhoods that we patrol. We're familiar with it.
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It's just devastating. Everyone's in shock. It's the kind of tragic thing that no family wants to see.
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We don't know, at this point, whether she just hit the road and drove away, or whether she's gone into a canal, or what.
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As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.
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This is not a place that has cash on hand. It's not a bank. These are just people working in an office environment.
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This boy had no treatment. He just suffered for a week.