Overview
- Local gendarmes were called after the child was found unresponsive at the family home and a neighbor attempted first aid before medics declared him dead, following Monday’s discovery.
- An autopsy at the Toulouse medico-legal institute found significant hematomas that the prosecutor says likely caused the death and are consistent with intentional, very violent blows.
- The mother and her partner, both 22, were placed in police custody on suspicion of murder on a minor as investigators continue to treat the case as criminal.
- The Muret research brigade has carried out interviews of the mother, the partner and the neighbor while forensic and toxicology tests proceed; the partner tested positive for narcotics and the mother was reportedly at work and taken in shock.
- The Saint-Gaudens prosecutor plans to hand the file to the Toulouse pôle criminel and investigators say all findings remain provisional pending complementary forensic exams and laboratory results.