Overview
- Guardia Civil investigators are probing a 32-year-old Spanish man, who has appeared before an Arrecife court on suspicion of reckless homicide.
- Regional outlets report a forensic report points to a fatal head injury that caused traumatic brain damage.
- According to the reports, the man first said the baby choked and later claimed he had a car accident that morning with the child in his vehicle.
- The baby collapsed on April 12, when Tinajo’s health center was closed, and local police performed CPR before transfers to hospitals in Arrecife and Las Palmas, where the infant died.
- The case is being handled by the Guardia Civil’s crimes-against-persons unit in Las Palmas and remains open without a publicly released full autopsy or final charging decision.