{"id":180951,"date":"2026-02-17T02:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180951\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:50:34","slug":"north-sacramento-mother-arrested-in-death-of-3-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180951\/","title":{"rendered":"North Sacramento mother arrested in death of 3-year-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Sacramento mother was arrested Friday on homicide-related charges in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son at the family\u2019s North Sacramento home a day earlier, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called by firefighters shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday to a medical aid call in the 3300 block of Douglas Street near Los Robles Boulevard. Inside the Hagginwood residence, they found the boy suffering from blunt-force trauma, according to the Sacramento Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Despite lifesaving efforts, the child \u2014 identified by the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office as Jeremiah Cash Carter \u2014 was pronounced dead at the scene by fire personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately release additional details about the circumstances leading to the child\u2019s injuries, but audio dispatches reviewed by The Sacramento Bee indicated the family had called 911 after the boy suffered a head injury.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives who took over the scene interviewed the boy\u2019s mother, Brianna Mikhela Butcher, 31, before taking her into custody. She was being held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail and was expected to be arraigned on one charge of murder Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Police said anyone with information about the incident was encouraged to call Sacramento police at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-4357.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee\u2019s Rosalio Ahumada contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dan_Hunt_011.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Daniel Hunt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Hunt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Daniel Hunt is a local news editor for The Sacramento Bee; he joined the newspaper in 2013.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento mother was arrested Friday on homicide-related charges in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[85804,84379,85803,121,123,85802,122],"class_list":["post-180951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-hagginwood-homicide","tag-jeremiah-cash-carter","tag-north-sacramento-child-death","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-mother-arrested","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}