TYLER, Texas — The parents of a 3-year-old child are behind bars after the toddler died at a Tyler hospital Wednesday night.
According to the Tyler Police Department, officers responded to a call in the 500 block of North Glenwood Boulevard as an assisting agency to the Tyler Fire Department.
When police arrived on scene, the found Tyler firefighters administering CPR to a child. The toddler was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.
Detectives and crime scene investigators arrested the parents of the 3-year-old, identified as Courtnie Williams, 30, and Manuel Williams, 39, for injury to a child.
The pair was booked into the Smith County Jail on $1 million bond each.
The child's body was sent to Dallas for autopsy and the charges against the parents could be upgraded to capital murder pending the autopsy results.
This case remains under investigation.
