Feb. 05--The death of a 2-year-old West Pullman boy in November has been ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner's office, authorities said Friday.
Georgio Edward Byrd Jr. was pronounced dead at 10 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2015, at Roseland Community Hospital after being injured at a home in the 200 block of West 112th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Georgio died from multiple blunt force injuries in a homicide, the office determined last month, following an autopsy in November and further investigation, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday.
The attack that killed Georgio took place sometime before 9:36 a.m. on Nov. 18, according to a Chicago police crime database.
Family took the boy to Roseland Hospital that day, and police were called because he showed signs of trauma, police said Friday. Detectives initiation were conducting a death investigation, but it was reclassified as a homicide last month, according to a police spokeswoman and the city's online crimes database.
No one was in custody Friday in the boy's death, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago police spokeswoman.
The state Department of Children and Family Services is investigating the boy's father and mother on allegations of abuse and neglect, a spokeswoman for the department said. Another child in the family, who is about a year old, was taken into DCFS custody at the time Georgio died. The agency has had no prior contact with the boy's father, and a prior allegation against his mother was ruled unfounded.
