Baby Found Dead Inside Dickerson Road Apartment
Child Dead For Several Hours, Say Investigators
POSTED: 10:21 am CDT October 30,
2009
UPDATED: 12:30 pm CDT October 30,
2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Metro police responded Friday morning to an apartment in the Dickerson Road area where a baby was found deceased inside.
The 4-month-old baby, Ayonda Rucker, was inside apartment 227 on the third floor of the Dellway Villa Apartments. Police said the mother, 19, gave Ayonda a bottle in the morning and then went back to bed with her boyfriend and the baby.Someone knocked on the apartment's door at 9:30 a.m., which is when the mother saw the baby wasn't breathing. Family members ran to the second floor to get help.Police tried CPR, which didn't work.The medical examiner will do an autopsy and took a sample of the child's formula to see if anything is unusual. Police warn parents not to sleep in same bed as their babies, although they said they don't know if that played a role in this death. The cause of death is currently unknown.Investigators said it appeared the baby had been dead for several hours.
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