MARCUS COLE - 3 months - Jacksonville FL

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville father appeared in court for the first time Saturday facing charges of murder in the death of his son.Marshall
Cole, 49, is being held on $250,000 bond. The judge also stipulated
upon Cole's release that he have to wear an ankle monitoring device.Cole was arrested Friday in the death of Marcus Cole.A
chief medical examiner said an autopsy determined that the injuries
that led to the child's death were a result of child abuse.An arrest warrant was issued on Jan. 8 leading to Friday's arrest.Both
of the child's parents told police Cole took his son into a back
bedroom of their home to put the child to sleep, according to a police
report.Cole was alone with the child in the bedroom for a minimum of 30 minutes, according to the report.Cole
told police he heard a noise from his son and noticed he was not
breathing, according to the report. The baby's mother said she went to
the room and found Cole sitting next to the baby but not calling for
help or trying to help the child.




Nearly a year later, an infant’s death has been ruled a homicide and a parent has been arrested.Jacksonville police on Friday arrested Marshall Dale Cole IV, 42, on a charge of murder in the death of 3-month-old Marcus Cole.The
infant wasn’t breathing when authorities were called to the Volley
Drive home March 22. He was taken to a hospital and died three days
later, the arrest report said.Both parents told police the boy
had been spitting up but nothing else was noticeably wrong before Cole
put him to bed. He was alone in the bedroom with the child for at least
30 minutes, both parents told police in the arrest report. Cole said he
heard a noise and noticed Marcus wasn’t breathing.When the boy’s
mother, Dioscora Cole, checked on them, she told police she found
Marshall Cole sitting beside him but not trying to help him in any way.Medical
experts, including the chief medical examiner, later concluded that
injuries were indicative of child abuse and an arrest warrant was
issued Jan. 8, the report said.

Jury Finds Father Guilty Of Baby's Death

Prosecutors: Man's Wife Found Baby Not Breathing With Father In Room
POSTED: Thursday, February 10, 2011
UPDATED: 9:30 pm EST February 10, 2011

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The jury in the trial of a man charged with murder in the death of his 3-month-old son found him guilty Thursday night.

Marshall Cole was accused of killing his son Marcus Cole.

In March 2009, the family was at home after a long day out, and while Marcus' mother was busy with one child, Marshall Cole was trying to put 3-month-old Marcus to bed, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Marshall was alone with Marcus in a room. Defense attorneys said Marshall claims that after several tries to put the baby to sleep, he fell asleep and woke to the baby not breathing and asked his wife for help.

His wife, however, said her husband was alone with the baby for at least 30 minutes, and she went up to the room to check on them and found her baby on the ground blue and not breathing and her husband doing nothing to help, prosecutors said.

"His skin was not even touching my son, and then the only thing he said -- the defendant said -- is that, 'I don't think he's breathing,'" Marshall's wife, Dioscora Cole said. "I picked up my son and told him to call 911."

Prosecutors said Marshall expressed no emotion during the 911 call, while his wife was heard wailing in the background. Marshall's wife testified he was laughing at the time of the baby's death.
According to the medical examiner, the baby was badly attacked and the death was the result of abuse. The medical examiner said the death was not accidental and was caused by purposeful injury, blunt force trauma to the baby's head and heavy shaking.

The defense has argued that no one really knows who hurt the baby, and Marshall is being blamed only because he was the last one with the baby.

Marshall testified that the baby's mother was to blame, claiming she shook the child too hard trying to get him to wake up and that she hurt the baby while trying to give him CPR.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/26821477/detail.html

Man Gets 35 Years For Baby'S Death

By Associated Press Writer | (AP)
Published: April 15, 2011


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) A Jacksonville man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for shaking his infant son to death.

A Duval County judge sentenced 43-year-old Marshall Dale Cole IV on Friday. He was convicted in February of second-degree murder.

Authorities say 3-month-old Marcus was hospitalized in March 2009 and died a few days later.

A medical examiner's investigation showed the baby had been shaken, and an arrest report said Cole had been alone with the child for at least 30 minutes before he stopped breathing.

http://www2.wjtv.com/news/2011/apr/15/man-gets-35-years-for-babys-death-ar-1722179/