Man charged with infant's death said he was in the bathroom when she started turning purple but later claimed he had an 'accident' and fell on top of her, police say

A North Texas antheral is down bars aft an infant successful his attraction died from intentional blunt unit trauma, constabulary successful the Lone Star State say.

Jayeshaun Spencer, 24, stands accused of superior execution of a idiosyncratic nether 10 years of age, according to Dallas County Jail records.

The underlying incidental occurred connected May 9 astatine the Lane astatine Towne Crossing flat assemblage successful Mesquite — a ample suburb located immoderate 14 miles owed eastbound of Dallas — and yet took the beingness of 4-month-old Alayah Hogan, the Mesquite Police Department says.

First responders arrived astatine the residence to find the small miss unresponsive and gasping for air, according to an apprehension warrant affidavit obtained by Dallas-based Fox affiliate KDFW. The babe was airlifted to Children's Medical Center successful Dallas and placed connected beingness enactment but yet pronounced brain-dead connected May 15.

On the time Alayah was hospitalized, Spencer was babysitting portion her parent went to a store sale, according to instrumentality enforcement.

In an archetypal interview, the suspect told investigators helium near the babe successful her car spot portion helium went to usage the bath and had propped up a vessel for her with a blanket, constabulary said. Spencer allegedly said that helium returned to find the kid gagging and turning purple.

Medical unit rapidly came to uncertainty that story.

Scans suggested patterns of abuse, constabulary said. As it turned out, the babe had seemingly suffered a bid of skull fractures successful assorted stages of healing, which indicated semipermanent abuse. The babe miss besides had a encephalon bleed and a precocious fractured leg, according to instrumentality enforcement.

When authorities yet performed an autopsy, the diagnoses were adjacent worse: Alayah had a ample and fatal skull fracture, 2 breached femurs, and a breached rib successful the process of healing.

"Alayah was specified a agleam and beauteous baby," Alayah's mother, Alana Hogan, told the TV station. "She was precise easygoing, tiny, and afloat of truthful overmuch light. One happening that ever stood retired astir astir her was her large beauteous brownish eyes. She was ever smiling and giggling much than crying. She loved cuddling and falling dormant beside me. There's truthful overmuch much that could beryllium said astir her, but it's truthful hard to enactment into words close now."

In the contiguous aftermath of the instrumentality enforcement response, Spencer was held successful jailhouse connected a extortion bid violation.

On the time successful question, the suspect was actively violating a household unit protective bid issued successful March barring him from coming wrong 300 yards of the girl's parent oregon her residence, constabulary said.

During a jailhouse telephone call, the suspect allegedly told Alayah's parent helium had an "accident" and fell connected apical of the infant. In the affidavit, Dallas County Medical Examiner Dr. Duscat explicitly rejected Spencer's explanation, saying the child's injuries required a level of unit that was inconsistent with immoderate benignant of accidental fall.

In a bail petition signifier obtained by KDFW, a detective noted Spencer is the common-law spouse of the victim's mother. The superior execution complaint was filed aft investigators determined the suspect was the sole caregiver astatine the clip the babe suffered her fatal injuries.

Spencer is being detained connected $1 cardinal bond, jailhouse records show.

Child Protective Services has since removed different kid from the location wherever the suspect was babysitting, constabulary said.