RI State Police and Cranston Police Investigating Suspicious Death of Infant

RI State Police and Cranston Police Investigating Suspicious Death of Infant

Detectives from the Rhode Island State Police and the Cranston Police Department are actively investigating the death of a 9-month old infant boy that occurred on Wednesday, December 2.

At approximately 1:00PM, the Cranston Fire and the Cranston Police Department responded to a report of an unresponsive and not breathing infant at a residence on Lincoln Avenue in Cranston.

The Cranston Fire Department subsequently transported the infant to Hasbro Children's Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

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The State Police said in a statement, they investigatin  “into the circumstances surrounding the infant's death.”

Cranston Police Department and  State Police executed  a search warrant at a residence in the Town of West Greenwich. The joint investigation is currently active and on-going.