{"id":439339,"date":"2026-08-21T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439339\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:07:58","slug":"sacramento-police-arrest-father-on-murder-charge-in-death-of-11-month-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439339\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police arrest father on murder charge in death of 11-month-old child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sacramento police say a father of an 11-month-old child has been arrested and booked on one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say on Aug. 15, officers responded to calls about an unresponsive 11-month-old inside an apartment near the 500 block of Rivergate Way. The child was taken to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead. 27-year-old Emari Thompson of Sacramento was detained by officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators took over the investigation. After reviewing the case and consulting with the Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, police arrested Thompson and booked him on one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the child was not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WATCH MORE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Suspected murder-suicide after child reports domestic violence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oFkwPjYou1I\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Suspected murder-suicide after child reports domestic violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento police say a father of an 11-month-old child has been arrested and booked on one count of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[88893,174055,868,121,123,122,9123],"class_list":["post-439339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-crime-scene-investigators","tag-emari-thompson","tag-homicide-detectives","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439339","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=439339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}