It took a Yakima County Superior Court jury less than four hours to find Terrence Chip Ogle guilty of murdering his girlfriend’s infant son.
Ogle was charged with second-degree murder, with prosecutors alleging that Ogle assaulted Alec and that the 15-month-old boy died as a result of his injuries April 27, 2020.
Jurors deliberated for about three hours and 45 minutes before finding Ogle guilty. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 26.
Alec’s death was the result of a blow to the head that literally cracked open his skull and caused massive bleeding on his brain. Ogle told police at the time that Alec had fallen from an ottoman while drinking a bottle of milk, hitting his head on the floor of the West Valley apartment where Ogle was living with his girlfriend and her three children.
Assistant Yakima City Attorney Brooke Wright aid the attack likely occurred shortly after Marie Kotler, Alec’s mother, left for Sunnyside to pick up her other children, leaving Ogle alone with Alec. Ogle had called her while she was driving to say that Alec had scratched his nose on a toy Nerf gun in the playpen, but was OK, and he was asleep when Kotler returned.
“She didn’t see anything wrong,” Wright said in her argument. “But she never saw him awake again.”
Terrence Chip Ogle found guilty in 2020 killing of West Valley toddler; juror says medical testimony was key
“It really makes you, in my opinion, sit back and forget about the hustle and bustle of the social media world we live in and appreciate life a lot more.”
