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Left inset: Anthony Evans (Chicago Police Department). Right inset: Kayson Flowers (Facebook/Kayla Flowers). Background: The Roseland vicinity of Chicago, Ill., wherever Anthony Evans allegedly had a household subordinate manus disconnected his lad Kayson Flowers to his parent successful a covered stroller aft sidesplitting him hours earlier, cops accidental (WBBM/YouTube).
An Illinois dada has been arrested for sidesplitting his 2-month-old lad and propping him up successful a covered stroller, with a household subordinate handing the lad disconnected to his mother and telling her helium was conscionable sleeping, cops say.
"Me, not reasoning thing of it, due to the fact that it was raining, I conscionable took my babe to the house, due to the fact that I didn't privation my kid to get sick," parent Kayla Flowers told reporters successful May astir discovering that her son, Kayson Flowers, was actually dead connected April 28.
"When I went successful the house, I uncovered the stroller," Kayla Flowers said, according to section ABC affiliate WLS. "My babe was lifeless."
Anthony Evans, 23, enlisted a comparative to manus Kayson disconnected to Kayla Flowers successful Chicago's Roseland vicinity aft sidesplitting him, according to police. Investigators accidental the kid had been dormant for six to 8 hours; his arms and legs were allegedly covered successful bruises.
"My baby's dead, they killed my baby!" Kayla Flowers told her pastor, Joe Huizenga, successful a telephone telephone aft the horrifying discovery, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"He's achromatic and blue," she said, according to Huizenga.
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Kayson was rushed to a section infirmary and pronounced dead, with authorities and doctors reporting signs of kid abuse. His decease was ruled a homicide and Kayla Flowers offered a reward for accusation starring to an apprehension with assistance from Huizenga's church, Roseland Christian Ministries.
"He ne'er got the accidental to accidental his archetypal words, instrumentality his archetypal steps, oregon observe his archetypal birthday," Kayla and Roseland Christian Ministries reportedly said successful a associated connection successful May. "He was a really, truly beauteous baby," Huizenga told WLS. "He had chubby small cheeks [and] a beauteous tegument tone."
Huizenga added, "It's conscionable perfectly horrific."
Kayla Flowers told constabulary that Kayson was allegedly staying with Evans and a household subordinate for astir a week erstwhile she went to prime the lad up connected April 28. Evans was not astatine the relative's location erstwhile Kayla picked Kayson up, according to police.
Evans was arrested connected Monday successful the 4700 artifact of South Champlain Avenue, according to a Chicago Police Department press release. He has been charged with murder.
"Me and my lad yet got our justice," Kayla Flowers wrote connected Facebook Wednesday.
"No words tin explicate however grateful I am," she said. "This means truthful overmuch to me. My lad didn't get a accidental to turn up with his household owed to his begetter (Anthony Evans) taking my son's life."
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