{"id":12510,"date":"2012-05-24T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12510"},"modified":"2012-05-25T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T04:48:50","slug":"centralia-police-investigating-death-of-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12510","title":{"rendered":"Update: Centralia police investigating death of toddler, arrest one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police Chief Bob Berg and Cmdr. Dave Ross watch over the house as they wait for a search warrant.<\/p><\/div>\n

Update at 9:53 p.m.: Police just announced they arrested James M. Reeder, 25, of Centralia, for first-degree murder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald said the arrest was made in part because of inconsistent statements and information they got from other sources, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CENTRALIA – Centralia police are investigating the death of two-and-a-half year old girl.<\/p>\n

The mother’s boyfriend said he was bathing the child, left to get a towel and returned to find the toddler face down in the bath tub according to the Centralia Police Department.<\/p>\n

The child exhibited some injuries, recent and otherwise, that caused officers some concern, according to police.<\/p>\n

Aid and police called about 3 p.m. to a neighborhood called Hunter’s Walk off of West Oakview Avenue found the man performing CPR on the child. She was not breathing, police said.<\/p>\n

She was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Detectives responded as a matter of routine, in the death of a child, according to police. No arrests have been made as of early this evening.<\/p>\n

Yellow police tape blocks off the modular home. The crime scene investigation van is parked in front, while officers wait for a search warrant to go inside and investigate further.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Bob Berg said they weren’t prepared to say if it was an accident or intentional.<\/p>\n

“It’s death investigation,” Berg said.<\/p>\n

Across the street neighbors Ray and Mary Stiltner said they were startled by loud knocking and opened their front door to see the unclothed child laying on their porch with a man.<\/p>\n

“He was trying to do CPR on her,” Ray Stiltner said. “His attempts on that continued until they came.”<\/p>\n

“He wasn’t doing it very well, I don’t think he knew how,” Mary Stiltner said. “It was very traumatic.”<\/p>\n

She called 911.<\/p>\n

Mary Stiltner said the man told them the little girl had been in the tub, he was gone for a few seconds and when he returned, she was under water.<\/p>\n

Next door neighbors Scott and Cindy North said the woman had moved in about six months earlier.<\/p>\n

Cindy North said she wasn’t sure who the man was, as the woman had a different boyfriend until recently.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t hear anything, but a lot of times we’d hear the baby crying over there, like it needed attention,” Scott North said.<\/p>\n

While neighbors said they saw the man taken away in a patrol car, detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald said he went voluntarily to be interviewed at the police department.<\/p>\n

The mother of the child is being interviewed there as well tonight, Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update at 9:53 p.m.: Police just announced they arrested James M. Reeder, 25, of Centralia, for first-degree murder. Detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald said the arrest was made in part because of inconsistent statements and information they got from other sources, he said. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CENTRALIA – Centralia police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-12510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12510"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12513,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}