Why? Little Boy Killed With Hammer Trying To Protect SisterThis one hurts.All this third grade boy wanted to do was defend his sister and a grown ass man decided to beat him to death with a hammer because of it....
Elizabeth Salone had been gone for only about 40 minutes, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the Sacramento Bee.
Salone, 27, had asked her ex-boyfriend, Deandre Chaney Jr., to watch her children while she dropped her brother off at work. When she returned home at about 6:10 a.m., she reportedly heard one of her children crying.
She was walking toward their bedrooms when Chaney struck her from behind with a hammer and tied her up, according to court records. Chaney was dousing the three-bedroom home with lighter fluid when the mother of three escaped to a neighbor’s house, where she called the police, her sister Latasha Robinson said.
Detectives are still piecing together a timeline of the events that led to the death of 8-year-old Dante Daniels.
Robinson said Dante tried to defend his younger sister from Chaney, who was allegedly sexually assaulting the 7-year-old. That’s when Chaney, 23, retrieved a hammer, which he used to brutally beat both of the children, their aunt said.Sacramento police said they cannot confirm the details provided by his family until the investigation is complete.
Dante was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared brain dead. Six days later, he died.
“This guy beat my grandson with a hammer. Down to his spine. They couldn’t save his brain,” Dante’s grandmother, Monique Brown, told local station Fox 40.Before Salone escaped, Chaney took her car keys, cellphone and some cash before driving off in her car, her sister said.
After cutting his parolee ankle monitor, Chaney boarded an Amtrak train to Salt Lake City, according to his arrest warrant. But he was arrested about four hours away in Winnemucca, Nev., where authorities found him wrapped in a tarp inside a shed Sept. 2.
Salone, whose left eye was badly damaged during the attack, has the guilt that any mother would, Robinson said.
She said she keeps getting texts from her sister saying, “I promise I did not know.”
“We can’t understand why he did it,” Robinson said. “Why all of a sudden this man would grab a hammer and start beating kids up. I asked my sister whether she noticed anything, and she said no.” -(Rachel Chason, The Washington Post)
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