SACRAMENTO—Police are investigating the death of a toddler under what is being called “unusual” circumstances and trying to determine if it was accidental or criminal.
Police found the toddler unconscious on Monday, November 10, in her home in Meadowview. The child, who is not being identified, was taken by a fire department ambulance to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
“We’re not calling it suspicious. It’s just an unusual death with unusual circumstances,” said Officer Justin Brown, spokesman. “Those details cannot be released at this time.”
Police were called to the hospital at 10:00 p.m. on Monday at the request of the Coroner’s Office.
Neighbors say a man who lives at the home in the 7600 block of Teekay Way in Meadowview changed his story several times about how the little girl died.
“He had told them she had slipped and fell, but he told us it was an asthma attack and then he said it was the stomach,” said neighbor Ebony Smart. “When the police asked me questions, they said there was probably meth involved. I just don’t think that what happened to that baby was an accident. “I (saw) them pick up the baby off the kitchen floor.”
Detectives interviewed family members and Sacramento County Child Protection Services is also involved in the case.
