ETHAN LUCE - 3 Months (2010) - West Springfield MA

WEST SPRINGFIELD - Police continue to probe the suspicious
death of a baby boy early Sunday morning in a Riverdale Street hotel.
"We are still looking into it," Officer Thomas A.
Guindon, a detective, said Monday. No arrests have been made, he said.
Police received an emergency call at about 3 a.m. Sunday
for a child needing medical assistance at the Clarion Hotel,
1080 Riverdale St. Information about exactly what was wrong
with the child was not available.
The Associated Press reported that the boy's mother,
Erica Luce, told WWLP-TV that she found her son covered in
cold water and lying naked next to an air conditioner on full blast.
Luce claimed a stranger broke into her room while she was
in an adjacent room talking to a friend. She did not respond
to several telephone calls from The Republican on Monday.
Guindon declined to comment on the report.
An ambulance responded and the child was taken to Baystate
Medical Center in Springfield, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Police believe the boy was only a few months old.
The child was with at least one parent when the request for
assistance was made, police said.
The child's mother has been a resident of the Clarion
Hotel for at least a few days. Police said she is from Western Massachusetts.
On Sunday, Detective Michael D. Reed labeled the death suspicious.
The Hampden district attorney's office declined to comment Monday.
The Clarion Hotel and Conference Center has 262 rooms and
is the largest West Springfield lodging member of the
Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, a bureau
spokesman said. In West Springfield, the bureau has 10
member hotel and motel properties, with a total of about 952
rooms, the spokesman said.
The spokesman noted that about 90 percent of the hotels and
motels in West Springfield are members of the bureau.

WEST SPRINGFIELD - The state has taken custody of a
3-year-old boy after the suspicious death of his infant
brother on Sunday.
The baby's death is being investigated by West
Springfield police and Hampden District Attorney William M.
Bennett. The baby had been with his mother and older brother
at a Riverdale Street hotel before being rushed by ambulance
to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where he was
pronounced dead.
Bennett said Tuesday that the autopsy has not been
completed. He declined further comment, citing the ongoing
investigation. No arrests have been made.