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An area 3-year-old was allegedly found unconscious at his mother’s boyfriend’s Roxborough home Saturday.
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Joseph Zysk, 27, was arrested Sunday for the death of Jason Larkin, 3, of the 2500 block of South Eight Street, Lt. Ray Evers of the Police Public Affairs Unit said.
5th District police responded to the home on the 4200 block of Houghton Street at 3 a.m. Saturday and found the boy on the floor with a woman performing CPR, Evers said.
The woman giving mouth-to-mouth was not the child’s mother although the mother, who shares joint custody of the boy with his father, was in the home, a Homicide source familiar with the case said.
Officers assisted in trying to revive the toddler before he was taken to Roxborough Hospital where he was pronounced dead due to blunt impact trauma at 4:11 a.m., Evers said.
Injuries included abdominal hemorrhaging and a laceration, according to the Homicide source. The motive has not yet been released.
Zysk was charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.
Contact Managing Editor Amanda L. Snyder at asnyder@southphillyreview.com or ext. 117.
Also in this week’s Police Report:
Robbed nabbed
After-midnight shooting
Knife snatch
Area meetings
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