A 20-month-old is dead after an overnight fight in Macon, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies went out to the 3800 block of Flamingo Drive just after 12:05 a.m. after a 911 call and found a woman who had been injured in a fight.
The victim said the man who assaulted her was her granddaughter’s father. After the fight, the father took the 1-year-old child and left.
The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment and a BOLO was issued for the man and his white car.
Just after 3 a.m. deputies located the vehicle in the 2000 block of Old Clinton Road, which is just over 7 miles away from where the fight took place.
The father was holding the child inside the car. The baby, 20-month old Bella Jordan, was not responsive and was pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley. An autopsy will be done at the GBI Crime Lab to determine the cause of death.
Miley told 13WMAZ that the baby appeared to have been beaten and possibly stabbed. She would have turned 2 on May 10th, according to Miley.
Two people have been taken into custody for questioning. Investigators are working to find out what led up to the fight.
19-year-old father and second person arrested, charged in murder of 20-month-old baby
Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley pronounced 20 month old Bella Jordan dead at 3:34 a.m.
