New Hampshire authorities have arrested a 32-year-old man on second-degree murder charges in the death of a 2-year-old boy.
An autopsy determined that Jacob Pelletier died of blunt-force trauma to the abdomen on Monday.
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said Mark Heath of Manchester was arrested Wednesday night. One second-degree murder charge alleges that he acted knowingly; the other alleges that he acted recklessly.
MacDonald said the boy was found unconscious in his family’s apartment. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Heath was expected to be arraigned Thursday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer and a phone number couldn’t be found for him.