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Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson confirmed the two-month-old baby who was brought to a Gulfport hospital early this week after being abused has died.

The baby was originally described as being in critical condition, and deputies arrested and charged his father with felony child abuse charges.

Authorities say Byron Allen Ellison of Gulfport admitted to abusing the infant. The abuse was discovered Monday when emergency responders were called to a home in Gulfport for a medical emergency.

The two-month-old was reportedly not breathing. The child was taken by ambulance to Garden Park Medical Center. There, investigators say doctors found that the baby’s skull had been fractured and that the child had a double brain bleed. The infant was immediately flown to Oschner’s Children’s Hospital.
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She left the room for a few moments to prepare a bottle for her 2-month-old “mircale baby” boy. Moments later, Jessica Smith found herself calling 911 and beginning CPR on her child until help arrived.

A tearful Smith recalled what happened before the death of her infant, Colton Wyatt Ellison, while she testified in Harrison County Circuit Court Tuesday at a trial for her ex-boyfriend, who is accused of killing their son.

Colton died in October 2018, days after paramedics found the baby unresponsive at the home Smith and Ellison shared on Calcutta Drive, south or Robinson Road in Gulfport.

Byron Ellison, who was first facing felony child abuse charges that were later upgraded, is on trial for second-degree murder in front of Judge Chris Schmidt.

When paramedics arrived on Oct. 15, 2018, Colton was unresponsive and they attempted to restart his breathing by performing CPR, according to court testimony.

The child was taken to then-Garden Park Medical Center in Gulfport, where he was diagnosed with multiple brain bleeds that required advanced treatment. Colton was flown to Ochsner Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. At that point, he was in critical condition.

While Colton was fighting for his life, his parents were transported to the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department for interviews.


That’s when Ellison was arrested on a felony child abuse charge, which was upgraded to second degree murder when the infant died.

An autopsy performed by the state on Oct. 22, 2018 lists Colton’s cause of death as homicide from blunt force trauma, according to a Sun Herald report.

Ellison’s trail started Monday with opening statements from prosecuting attorney Billy Stage and defense attorney Jim Davis.

“This case is simple…the medical evidence is simple,” Stage said. “The baby was doing well…this was not accidental…this was homicide.”

Davis told the courtroom that Colton’s death could have been the result of a blocked esophagus. The child was born premature and had existing health issues.

After paramedic Brett Taylor told the court about how he had tried to resuscitate Colton after finding him not breathing, Smith took the stand for over an hour.

Holding back tears, she testified that Ellison would get frustrated at their child when Colton was crying and refer to him as a “little shit.”

Smith said she had gone into the other room to prepare formula. Several minutes later she found her child lifeless, unable to hold up his head or move his arms and wasn’t crying.

She then called 911 and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

Sheriff Troy Peterson told the Sun Herald in 2018 that Ellison admitted to investigators that he had abused Colton. At that time, Smith also added that investigators told her Ellison said he hurt the baby because he wouldn’t stop crying.

Sheriff’s Investigator Anthony Piazza testified Tuesday that Ellison told three stories in his interview. First, Ellison told him he was bouncing Colton on his knee and that may have hurt him.

Then, Piazza said, he said he brought the child to his chest and may have injured his head by hitting it against his collar bone.

Finally, Ellison suggested Colton may have fallen off the bed.

Jurors then watched Piazza’s near two-hour interrogation of Ellison.
 
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Jessica Smith quietly wept on a supporter’s shoulder when a jury Thursday night convicted her ex-boyfriend for causing the catastrophic brain injuries that led to their baby’s death.

The jury convicted Byron Eugene Ellison of capital murder in the October 2018 death of 2-month-old Colton “Colt” Wyatt Ellison.

Afterward, Judge Christopher Schmidt asked Ellison and his attorney, Jim Davis, if they wished to offer a comment prior to sentencing. Both declined.
The judge sentenced Ellison to life in prison without parole. The state did not seek a death sentence.

The jury had the option to convict Ellison on lesser charges, but elected to convict Ellison on the highest offense possible for the crime.

Colton died days after paramedics found him unresponsive at the home Smith and Ellison shared on Calcutta Drive, south or Robinson Road in Gulfport. The three had moved in with Ellison’s parents after the baby spent about four or five weeks in a New Orleans hospital.
The baby had been born with a esophageal issues that required surgery and treatment early-on.

Smith testified that Ellison would often get frustrated at their baby when he was crying and refer to him as a “little s--t.”
As Harrison County sheriff’s deputies led Ellison out of court in handcuffs, his mother wept as she sat next to Ellison’s dad and a friend.

The only one who deserves tears in Colton.
 
Interesting that he was convicted of capital murder; in one of the earlier articles it says he was being charged with second degree murder charges, which are what I would expect to see in a case like this, from what I was able to read in the articles linked. I wonder why the charges were upgraded again? Not that I'm disappointed or anything.
 
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