Death of Columbus 4-month-old in October of 2021 ruled a homicide
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UPDATE (08/19/2022): Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan has released the identity of the deceased 4-month old as Jamason Jenkins. Jenkins passed away on October 16, 2021 from Hypoxic-ischemic Encephalopathy due to head trauma, also known as: shaken baby syndrome.
Original story (07/21/2022): The manner and cause death of a Columbus four-month-old has been released nearly nine months since the incident.
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan released the new details in a message on Thursday afternoon. A four-month-old baby was pronounced deceased at Scottish Rites Hospital in Atlanta in October of 2021. The baby was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations crime lab in Decatur, Georgia where ever since then authorities have awaited for the cause and manner of death. The baby’s manner of death was ruled a homicide with the cause of death being hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy due to head trauma inflected by others, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan confirmed. The total homicides in 2021 has been upped to 73.
“Due to the nature of this death the Coroner is temporarily withholding the infants name as the Columbus Police Department Homicide Division is conducting their investigation,” Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan added.
No other details have been released.
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