NEW YORK (AP) -- A man has been arrested in the death of his girlfriend's 22-month-old boy who was found unconscious and badly beaten at a Bronx apartment, police said Thursday.
Police said Shamel Adams, 28, was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.
On Wednesday night, Nicole Freeman, 27, said she left her two sons with Adams. When she returned home, she discovered one of her sons - Dee Jay Ellijah - was unresponsive, police said.
The boy was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead about thirty minutes later.
"I can't believe it," Freeman told the New York Times. "I can't believe he punched him like that. He killed my son."
A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office told the Times the boy died from internal injuries, including lacerations to his liver and intestines
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