A 4-year-old boy who was found next to his mother’s boyfriend in Texas was beaten to death, a medical examiner said.
Michael Cruz Arroyo, 32, is now charged with capital murder and two counts of injury to a child.
The mother told police that she and Arroyo checked into a Days Inn in San Antonio before she left Cash and her two other children with her boyfriend.
When she returned later that day she found her boy unresponsive and with visible injuries to his head.
Emergency responders soon pronounced him dead at the scene.
The case had been ruled a homicide.
“If anybody was to either hurt them or kill them…I would probably just want to die myself,” Rodriguez said.
“To find out that somebody did something brutal to somebody... it hurts.”