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29th June 2011, 10:40 PM
A mother 'killed her three month old son before taking his dead body shopping with her'
By Paul Thompson
Last updated at 8:05 PM on 29th June 2011
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Share A mother has been accused of killing her three month old son before taking his dead body shopping with her.
Toyrianna Smith is alleged to have suffocated her newborn son to stop him from crying after his screams disturbed her sleep.
Hours later she dressed the boy and took him out in a carrier while she went shopping near her home in Harvey, Illinois.
Toyrianna Smith of Harvey, Illinois is charged with first-degree murder after she killed her infant son and then carried him around shopping the next day
Ms Smith, 20, later dropped in to see a friend who noticed that the baby wasn't moving and noticed blood on the child's blanket and called emergency services.
The child, identified as Ken Blackman Jr., was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Medical examiners said he had been dead at least eight hours when he was brought to the emergency room and ruled his death a homicide.
Police believe Smith dressed the baby and took him out as the boy's father was due to return home and she was unable to explain his son's death.
Police were alerted when a friend of Ms Smith noticed the baby in the pram wasn't moving
Prosecutors said Ms Smith took her newborn son and three year old daughter to spend the night with a close friend.
She and her friend spent the night drinking vodka and Ms Smith stayed in a guest room with her children.
According to a police affidavit Ms Smith said she was woken up by the screams of her newborn baby and admitted putting a blanket over his head and striking him up to four times in the face until he was quiet.
She allegedly admitted killing the child because he would not quit crying, even demonstrating for police on a doll how she struck and suffocated him.
State’s attorney’s office spokesman Andy Conklin, citing court records, said Ms Smith held the blanket over her son's face until his arms and legs stopped jerking and he was quiet.
Ms Smith was being held on $1m bond after being charged with first-degree murder.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009571/A-mother-killed-month-old-son-taking-dead-body-shopping-her.html#ixzz1QlonU1AE
By Paul Thompson
Last updated at 8:05 PM on 29th June 2011
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Share A mother has been accused of killing her three month old son before taking his dead body shopping with her.
Toyrianna Smith is alleged to have suffocated her newborn son to stop him from crying after his screams disturbed her sleep.
Hours later she dressed the boy and took him out in a carrier while she went shopping near her home in Harvey, Illinois.
Toyrianna Smith of Harvey, Illinois is charged with first-degree murder after she killed her infant son and then carried him around shopping the next day
Ms Smith, 20, later dropped in to see a friend who noticed that the baby wasn't moving and noticed blood on the child's blanket and called emergency services.
The child, identified as Ken Blackman Jr., was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Medical examiners said he had been dead at least eight hours when he was brought to the emergency room and ruled his death a homicide.
Police believe Smith dressed the baby and took him out as the boy's father was due to return home and she was unable to explain his son's death.
Police were alerted when a friend of Ms Smith noticed the baby in the pram wasn't moving
Prosecutors said Ms Smith took her newborn son and three year old daughter to spend the night with a close friend.
She and her friend spent the night drinking vodka and Ms Smith stayed in a guest room with her children.
According to a police affidavit Ms Smith said she was woken up by the screams of her newborn baby and admitted putting a blanket over his head and striking him up to four times in the face until he was quiet.
She allegedly admitted killing the child because he would not quit crying, even demonstrating for police on a doll how she struck and suffocated him.
State’s attorney’s office spokesman Andy Conklin, citing court records, said Ms Smith held the blanket over her son's face until his arms and legs stopped jerking and he was quiet.
Ms Smith was being held on $1m bond after being charged with first-degree murder.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009571/A-mother-killed-month-old-son-taking-dead-body-shopping-her.html#ixzz1QlonU1AE