'The baby's skin is on his lips!': Dad started biting infant son on the cheek at chicken wing restaurant, squeezed him until he turned blue as patrons looked on in horror, cops say

A Tennessee antheral is down bars aft allegedly biting his ain infant son connected his feature astatine a Memphis chickenhearted helping edifice during a nationalist outburst, with witnesses saying they saw "the baby's tegument connected his lips."

"Seeing that babe look truly broke my heart," wrote 1 witnesser connected Facebook, who captured the constabulary effect connected video and posted it connected his page, wherever it has amassed implicit 1 cardinal views. "I can't adjacent slumber reasoning astir that baby," the antheral said. "The devil is busy."

Police and witnesses accidental officers responded to a telephone astir 1 a.m. astatine the Memphis Wings edifice located astatine 2661 North Hollywood Street astir a man, identified arsenic Jerry Stark, 34, who had attacked his ain child portion wrong the restaurant.

An apprehension affidavit obtained by section CBS affiliate WREG says that erstwhile officers arrived connected scene, they saw Stark "screaming and panicking" wrong the restaurant. He was allegedly archetypal seen astatine a adjacent Shell state presumption and past a Marathon state presumption holding the kid and asking radical for help, WREG reports.

Police accidental Stark ran implicit to Memphis Wings portion carrying the babe successful his arms, wherever helium past got down connected the room level and began squeezing the kid tightly until helium turned blue. Bystanders and patrons managed to safely instrumentality the babe distant from Stark, but not earlier helium allegedly spot the lad connected the cheek.

Footage posted connected Facebook shows radical extracurricular the restaurant, holding the doorway unopen arsenic they allegedly forestall Stark from leaving. One witnesser tin beryllium heard shouting, "The baby's tegument is connected his lips and cheek!"

Paramedics rushed the young unfortunate to a section hospital, wherever helium was treated for a noncritical facial injury. The affidavit says the child's parent told investigators that Stark had pushed her retired of a moving conveyance earlier and drove disconnected with their son, WREG reports.

After entering the helping restaurant, Stark allegedly claimed his household was trying to termination him, and helium needed assistance getting distant from them. He was taken into custody and booked into the Shelby County Jail connected a complaint of home battle causing bodily harm.

Stark is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Monday morning.