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Police: Death of Winooski toddler was homicide
Posted: May 09, 2014 12:14 PM CST Updated: May 09, 2014 6:34 PM CST
By Shelby CashmanWINOOSKI, Vt. - Those who knew 15-month-old Peighton Geraw say he was a dream baby. Staff members at the day care where he used to spend time say he was always smiling and happy.
But his life was tragically cut short. On the afternoon of April 4, emergency services responded to a home on Malletts Bay Avenue in Winooski after receiving reports that a baby had stopped breathing. The child was then transported to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington and pronounced dead shortly after.
And now police say that Peighton Geraw was killed.
"The death certificate which was issued by the medical examiner [Thursday] listed the manner of death as a homicide and the cause as trauma to the head and neck," said Sgt. Mike Warren of the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations.