HALII MCCORD - 4 - Brooklyn NY

Bruised tot found dead

• By LARRY CELONA and NATASHA VELEZ
  
• Last Updated: 3:32 AM, November 7, 2012
  
• Posted: 2:53 AM, November 7, 2012
  

A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl, with bruises on her head and chest, was found dead in her crib yesterday, police sources said.

Little
Halii McCord was put to bed by her mother, Alicia McLaughlin, at around
5 p.m. Monday in their home in the Boulevard Houses in East New York,
the sources said.

When McLaughlin, 21, went to check on her child the following morning, the girl wasn’t breathing.

The frantic mother called 911 and emergency responders rushed Halii to Brookdale Hospital, where she died.

A neighbor, Beatrice Baker, said they had just moved into the building and Halii “was always smiling.”




MYSTERY: Mom Alicia McLaughlin (left) discovered daughter Halii McCord, 4, unconscious. She later died.

Police were talking to the mother at the 75th Precinct station house early
today, sources said. She has not been charged with any crime. The
Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy to determine a cause
of death.

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Mother's Boyfriend Charged in Death of 4-Year-Old Halii McCord




November 16, 2012 3:29pm

BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn man has been charged with murder in the beating death of his girlfriend's daughter, 4-year-old Halii McCord, prosecutors said on Friday.

Alicia McLaughlin told police that her boyfriend, Christopher Marshall, 23, choked and repeatedly smacked her and threatened to kill Halii hours before the girl was found dead, according to the criminal complaint.

"Both of you are going to learn that you talk too much," Marshall said as he walked between rooms in their Boulevard Houses apartment, according to the complaint.

McLaughlin said she saw Marshall strike Halii in the head, and soon after, Halii began to vomit, the complaint says.

Halii was found unconscious and unresponsive on Nov. 6 and rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

The medical examiner's office said Halii died of a rupture to the lower bowel as a result of blunt force trauma, and ruled the death a homicide.

Marshall was charged with murder, manslaughter, assault, criminal obstruction of breathing and endangering the welfare of a child.

If convicted on the murder charge, Marshall faces 25 years to life in prison.

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