On December 3rd, 2025, officers were dispatched to a residence following a reported medical emergency. >> 322 show me 10-4. >> Police department. Hey, where's baby at? Where's baby? Breathing? >> He was choking. I don't know. >> Come here. Come here. Come here. Okay. Come here. >> I was giving him apple juice and he just started choking. >> The apple juice is making him choke? >> Yes. He's not showing any improvement. >> He's okay. He's okay. We're getting some breath. We're okay. >> Yes, he's here. >> Hey, uh get your shirt off. Get your shoes on real quick. Don't get wet. Go back. >> Okay. >> Breathing? >> Yeah. >> We're getting a little bit of respiration. Um hey, grab a blanket for your kid when you go out and get some. >> Yep. Hey, grab a blanket. >> Okay, here. >> Yes, we got one. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come downstairs with me. That way if you guys got to ride out with the ambulance. >> No, the ambulance. >> Okay. So, they were giving the baby apple juice. We're getting respirations, but 693 to headquarters. The baby is breathing, but it's having some trouble. We're outside. >> Headquarters, 10-59. >> Hey, little baby. You're okay. You're okay. Come here. Does he have any health issues at all? >> He got a little stomach problem. He He be constipated. That's the reason why we've been giving him apple juice. >> Constipation, that's it. No health issues? >> [applause] >> He's a real quick, I guess. Was she just fine when you were feeding him apple sauce or what? >> Yeah, apple juice. He was just fine. >> Okay. So, he was just drinking apple juice? Okay. [applause] He never had any seizures or anything? Nothing like that? Can you look in his eyes real fast? >> He'll be 2 months. He was like I got a little bit 2 months. >> You getting any kind of movement at all? He's He's fighting them down, so. >> Yeah, he's >> He's okay. He's okay, I guess. Come here, baby. You want to wrap him up a little bit? Yeah, we're okay. You got an ambulance coming, okay? Yeah, we got a little grunt. We got a little grunt, it's okay. Are you okay, mama? Just block that wind. It's cold. Ambulance is coming. I told dispatch to let them know that you don't got to ride, so that way they can let you one of you guys >> He's choking and I think he might be having maybe >> [cough] >> chance of going up to a seizure toss possible, so. >> Getting breath right now, you can hear him. He's just struggling a little bit to breathe, okay? >> Hey, I'll pop my passenger door if you want to just >> Yeah, yeah. Get some warm air on him. Yeah, I don't think he's choking. I think we're okay. I think he might just be having some kind of little health issue. You said they were giving him apple juice? He's breathing. It's kind of He's having some It sounds like a bunch of congestion. Has he been sick at all? >> Yeah, he had um his shots a while ago. >> What? 2 months old, right? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. When was his shots? Was it at the 2 month? >> Yeah, last month. >> At the end of last month? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we're fine. So, medical no more, of course, but he's he's getting some breaths. It was just apple juice he was drinking? >> Yeah, that's it. >> And he didn't eat no food or anything? Didn't give him anything solid at all? >> No. >> Okay. >> Ready. >> I gave him gave him a bath. And after we had gave him this bath, he had stomach issues, so he constipated, so we had to give him apple juice to help him >> Try to break it down. >> Yeah. Yeah. And then he was drinking it. >> And then he started coughing. >> And then I stopped patting his back. Then I gave him the give >> Right now he's just on the He's drinking formula? >> Huh? >> Is that all he takes is formula? >> Yeah, Similac. >> You haven't given him any kind of solids and kind of >> We don't give him cereal or anything. I don't give him nothing hard. >> Okay. Just trying to keep him in the warmth a little bit to make it faster so that way when they get here we can just load him up. >> you notice he's kind of congested, too. >> Yeah, that's what I was saying. Yeah, he might be having some kind of sickness going on right now, guys. That might be what it is. >> Yeah. >> Here they come. They just killed their sirens. >> I see the lights. >> Yeah, we got 2 months old. They gave him some apple juice. He's having some hard time breathing. Sounds like some congestion. He got his 2 month shots in the last month. Other than that, there's no medical concerns or any medications, so Yeah. But he's not cold, he's warm, he's got breaths. Got some congestion going on. He was eating some drinking some apple sa- or apple juice. Uh he was having some stomach issues, constipation, so they gave him a little bit of apple juice. Can I close this? Yeah. You let mom hop up here. Hey, you can let let mom come in here. Mom, you want to come up there? >> Yes. >> Try to open his eyes and he's pulling his eyelids back down on us, so >> I guess he's all >> All right. Breathing good, heart rate's good, respiratory rate's good. I'm about to check his oxygen level. >> Is that it? >> Yeah, he's good. >> Yeah, you got a good man. Okay. Medics got you, okay? >> Thank you. >> What you saying? Lamar. >> Lamar Ellis. >> After medics completed their initial evaluation, the family went to the hospital for further examination. 12 hours later, doctors discovered concerning findings and contacted police. Both parents were subsequently placed on investigative hold. >> So, I got to be >> Can I see your phone? >> Yeah. >> So, you're just going to be placed in handcuffs. It's called detained. >> Can I bring this up? >> You got to walk in half an hour and do your thing, but >> No, I don't have >> I'll let your mom know, too, okay? >> Well, I am a mom in the room. >> Good. >> She is a mom. I would just let her know my day. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay, I'll have her get back. >> Oh. >> You guys are going to be at our station for for a bit. >> What do you mean for a little while? Stay the night? >> Probably, yeah. >> Oh, man. >> What? >> How long have you guys been together? >> I've I moved out here to be with her. I'm not sure. >> 5 years? >> Have a seat. >> Uh half. It's my first time. >> Jump up there. I got you. Fall back. Take a seat. You can have a cookie. You're good? >> Yes, sir. Thank you. >> This isn't This isn't my case. All I know is detectives asked me to transport you to the police department. That's what I'm doing. >> Well, right now you're All I'm doing is transporting you to our our police department. Over there, the detectives will talk to you. And then, they'll advise you of your rights and everything. If you want to talk to them, let them know details of what happened, things like that. But, as of right now, all I'm doing is just taking you over there. You'll be sitting there for They should be done here in like less than an hour. They'll meet us over there. They'll put you in a room, and you'll talk to them. That's it. And then, they'll let you know the steps going on forward. But, literally right now, all you're doing is just getting transported to our police department. So, you saw that car from earlier? >> Yeah, I want to take it. >> That was what? Apparently, they came right back at 8:00 this morning. >> And they went back at 8:00? >> Yeah. Fire medical went over there. >> Uh-huh. >> I think they I guess they cleared the baby. They said it was fine and everything. >> Oh. Okay. >> So, at 8:00, they went to OU. >> Okay. >> And I guess they took a Lyft to OU cuz they can't drive. And now the baby is not sleeping. So, that's what? >> Yeah. >> Apparently, the baby like the baby is like bad. Skull. Um They took him because he was he was acting stiff. He was having seizures. >> Acting stiff? >> Yeah. I guess they said they said something about his arms would get stuck like this. They didn't know what to do. >> Uh well, I talked to him um the woman is the one that called me and she was crying. Hard to understand. And she said something about his breathing. Okay, is he not breathing? Is he having a hard time breathing? Is one of those types of things. And in the background, I can hear him saying uh what was that? I think it was uh sounds like he has something in his throat. That's what he said. >> All right, yeah. Apparently, they they gave him apple juice. They gave him apple juice last night. I guess he choked on the apple juice. That's when they called That's when they called They called the ambulance and everything. >> Uh-huh. >> Because he was choking and they thought he wasn't breathing. And yeah. >> Can you lift this up a little bit for me? That you can keep right there. I'm taking the drawers this one, partner. You can take the top drawer, okay? We're going to ask you a couple questions before we do any of that. We're going to do this and I'm going to I'm going to get them parts, okay? Before I do this. Do you read and write well? >> No. >> Which one do you not do well? >> Both. >> Can't read, can't write very well? >> Yeah. >> Run us through yesterday from beginning to end. When you woke up to the time that you got to the hospital. Like what your day was like. You woke up, what activities did we do, what where did we go? >> I was at my dad's house on Monday. That's when I got my Etsy stuff. >> Okay. >> And we came back. We fine on Monday. We all went to sleep. And then Tuesday, I was on the phone like playing with him and I was on the phone with my friends. That's the whole day. I was just all I was on the phone phone with my friends and playing with them. He came with us around like almost close to 12, but I was still on the phone with my friends. We were watching him, too. And I was on the phone still in my room after he came with us. Him. What's wrong with him? He said Oh, he started talking on the after juice. And and he passed it back and he was fine. Then I went back in my room and all I know, I came in there cuz I had a pop again. So, I came in there. He was talking like turning purple. And I was like, he can't breathe. I think we should, you know, call the police. And that's what I did. That's all that happened. I don't And then when we got to the hospital, I was trying to tell them because I didn't know what was going on and why he like this because he's my first child. And I wouldn't do anything to hurt my son. And when they told us that he had broken And all of that was him. I don't know how he got it or who did it because he he do sleep with us. He do. He don't sleep in his bassinet. He been like this since he got out the hospital. >> What else did you see him do? Uh when you was trying to help him to to not choke to to be able to breathe. What what other movements and other >> [clears throat] >> If I had a baby, I'll show it to you. I'm just act like this is a baby, right? >> What happened to the adult? >> Okay, yeah. That's that's fine. >> Oh, doing this pain? >> Yeah, just kind of manipulating as as best you can. And if you can demonstrate this, can you tell this possible up to how hard he may have been patting him, uh how his hand placement was on him, all of that. >> I don't know if he had his hand over his like his neck. And doing this. Like that. And then he tried to >> Is that Would that be the baby's back or his chest? >> His back. >> Okay. >> Doing that. No, this is how I I do know. I don't When he with me, I don't hold him by his neck. I like I'll do this. Or I just do like this with his stomach and just do it softly. I don't think when he did this, I just >> And what he did was >> What I He hold him by his neck like this. But I don't know if he was squeezing tight. >> Mhm. >> And trying to get him to breathe like this. >> So, here's our problem, okay? He has many Okay? And those injuries, they don't come about by co-sleeping or just a soft pat on the back, okay? What we're trying to get to the bottom of, okay, is how hard was he holding him, how hard was he patting him on the What did you observe? And it's at this point you need to make your statements for this, okay? Because this is very serious, right? That's why we're all here right now. >> Okay. >> He's very sick. He's very hurt. Very, very, very hurt. Significant that do not happen to accidentally in normal everyday life. >> He took his anger out on him. It doesn't to do that to me. >> Is that what you think? >> Yes. >> Okay. I think >> He was mad at me. He was mad at me cuz he injured our our son instead of him. That's what I think. When I said something was wrong with him, Durell was trying to get a little bit upset because I asked him what happened and he was getting mad. I took the baby away from him and that's when I called the police and told him my son was not breathing. I need help. Can someone help? To me, I feel like he cuz he injured our our son and our son is like this. >> On the way to the hospital, did you and Durell talk what you were going to say to the hospital staff to make sure that both of y'all's statements match? Did y'all talk about that? >> Mhm. >> Okay. Did he tell you what to say at all? >> Mhm. >> Did he tell you what to say? >> No. No. If I he maybe told me to say um I don't know my dad kept saying tell the truth. Be honest. He didn't tell me to say anything. Durell was kind of like mad and upset at my dad because my dad kept saying somebody did something. Durell got mad at my dad and went to the bathroom and took his anger out and hit the door and then that's when my dad said, "One of y'all going to go to jail but he might go cuz he's angry. He's probably acting Well, I can't control how he acts." >> What's that? >> That's what happened. >> All right. I think we're going to finish up. This is Andy. We are DHS. She's going to serve you some paperwork. >> Okay. >> So, I'm a DHS. I'm a supervisor for DHS. So, he is currently in state custody. There is a no contact order. So, if or when you are released, you cannot have contact with him at this time until the police investigation um is done and the police are able to give us a little bit more information cuz we do not know if we hurt him. So, at this time we're not allowing anybody to have contact with you, that or your parents. >> All right. So, just like I handcuffed you going coming here, I got to handcuff you going back. All right? So, if you could stand up and face the wall. >> The man was charged with a felony following the investigation. He pleaded not guilty and has remained in custody on a $75,000 bond since his arrest. The case is still pending and expected to proceed to trial.