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The 2-year-old boy killed in Las Vegas allegedly by his mother’s boyfriend, died at As a result of a beating that the man gave him after the little boy urinated his pants , according to details of the Police report.
One day after Amari Nicholson’s body was found near the apartment complex where he disappeared on May 5, Las Vegas FOX5 channel reports that the suspect Terrell Rhodes confessed that he hit him between 3 and 4 times with “with a closed fist” for having urinated on his clothes several times.
Rhodes, boyfriend of the child’s mother, was Arrested on 11 May and it was then that he made the devastating confession to the investigators.
“At one point, the face Amari turned blue and purple oy stopped breathing ”, said the suspect under polygraph according to the arrest report to which FOX5 had access.
Rhodes, who appeared before a Clark County judge Wednesday only to hear that he is not entitled to bail, said that tried to give him CPR, but the boy did not react and later took it out of the apartment at Emerald Suites and dumped it in an all-suite complex located half a block away.
An offering in honor of the charming Amari continues to grow in the Emerald Suites area, very close to the Las Vegas Strip.
Candles still burning this morning at the memorial site for 2-year-old Amari Nicholson. pic.twitter.com/aUE6f3Q57 To
– Kelsey McFarland (@KelseyMarie_TV) May 13, 2021
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Amari Nicholson’s mother, who was in Colorado caring for her mother when the murder occurred, had told Rhodes days before that their relationship was over .