UPDATE 4:24 P.M.
PEORIA, Ill. – A detention hearing will take place Wednesday for a teenager accused in the death of an 18-month-old child in South Peoria.
The Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office says 18-year-old Amarian Billups-Wilson is charged with First Degree Murder in the death of Clylen Ewing.
Prosecutors say Peoria Police officers found Ewing unresponsive and not breathing with visible facial injuries after they were called to Wiswall and Lincoln on Sunday just after 6:15 P.M.
Ewing was taken to a local hospital and later died, with an autopsy revealing multiple blunt force trauma injuries that include two rib fractures and a lung contusion.
Ewing’s mother reportedly told police that she left her four children in the care of Billups-Wilson the night before, with the other children reporting seeing Clylen struck multiple times, hit with shoes, and pushed down the stairs.
Billups-Wilson reportedly admitted to hitting Clylen multiple times to police, but claims he was unaware of how hard he was hitting him because he was allegedly intoxicated.
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UPDATE 10:36 A.M.
PEORIA, Ill. – An 18-year-old man is arrested in connection to the death of an infant from this past weekend in Peoria.
Peoria Police says Amarion Billups is charged with First Degree Murder, Aggravated Battery, Aggravated Battery to a Child, and multiple counts of Endangering the Life or Health of a Child.
Billups is charged in the death of 1-year-old Clylen Ewing, with police ruling the death as a homicide.
Peoria Police responded to the area of Wiswall and Lincoln just after 6:15 P.M. on reports of an unresponsive infant, finding Ewing not breathing. Ewing was taken to OSF Saint Francis and pronounced dead a short time later.
Police say an investigation allegedly showed signs of physical abuse involving additional children inside the home, and three children were taken to a hospital for evaluation of minor, non-life-threatening injuries.
Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy showed Ewing suffered multiple blunt force trauma injuries, as a result of “tremendous abuse.”
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PEORIA, Ill. – A one-year-old boy has died from what the Peoria County coroner describes as “unusual circumstances” after suffering “tremendous abuse”.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the death Sunday night of Clylen Ewing is being investigated as a homicide.
In a statement, Harwood says an autopsy on Monday afternoon showed the toddler suffered multiple blunt force trauma injuries “perpetrated by another.”
Harwood says the one-year-old was taken by ambulance from his home to OSF St. Francis Medical Center. He was unresponsive, not breathing and did not have a pulse.
“While I would like to state that Ewing died instantly, I cannot. He very unfortunately and sadly suffered tremendous abuse,” Harwood says.
The toddler was pronounced dead at OSF St. Francis at 6:56 p.m. Sunday.
Peoria Police are investigating the boy’s death as a homicide, but no other information has been released.
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