{"id":94704,"date":"2017-10-27T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=94704"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:08:32","slug":"gh-man-charged-with-murdering-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/10\/27\/gh-man-charged-with-murdering-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"GH man charged with murdering baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GROVER HILL &#8212; A Grover Hill man has been charged with murder in the beating death of a baby in that village.<\/p>\n<p>Tristen A. Blair, 19, will be arraigned in Paulding County Court this coming Monday, October 30, in the death of 3-month-old Zyathen Blair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94705\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tristen-Blair-mugshot-10-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Tristen Blair<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Grover Hill EMS and Police Department responded at 11:57 a.m. Friday, October 20, to a report of a 3-month-old child not breathing at 202 S Cleveland St. in Grover Hill. The child was transported by the emergency squad and eventually admitted in a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospital.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, October 21, medical staff at the Indiana hospital contacted the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office indicating possible child abuse and noting the infant was in critical condition and not expected to survive.\u00a0 Deputies from the Sheriff\u2019s Office took over the investigation at that point. On Wednesday October 25, Zyathen was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, an autopsy was conducted on the baby, and\u00a0 evidence of blunt force trauma was discovered during that examination. Interviews were conducted at the Sheriff\u2019s Office and, as a result, Blair was arrested and charged preliminarily with one count of murder, an unclassified felony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an incredibly bad situation for the family of young Zyathen,\u201d said Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers. \u201cHe was a defenseless infant and there\u2019s absolutely no excuse for this<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI give credit to my staff working this case, as well as the family that cooperated with the investigation,\u201d the sheriff added. \u201cI cannot begin to imagine their pain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information GROVER HILL &#8212; A Grover Hill man has been charged with murder in the beating death of a baby in that village. Tristen A. Blair, 19, will be arraigned in Paulding County Court this coming Monday, October 30, in the death of 3-month-old Zyathen Blair. The Grover Hill EMS and Police Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 11:03:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}