{"id":124668,"date":"2026-02-06T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:09:21","slug":"toddler-dies-from-injuries-after-father-beats-him-in-nyc-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124668\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Dies From Injuries After Father Beats Him In NYC Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 2-year-old boy has died after his father allegedly beat him at a Queens homeless shelter over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old boy had been on a ventilator since Monday after suffering severe injuries including a blown pupil, brain damage, fractured pelvis, and a lacerated liver, among others, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p>The boy&#8217;s father, Dayvon Morrison, 30, told prosecutors he was drunk when he attacked the 2-year-old on Jan. 30. <\/p>\n<p>Morrison was arrested on Monday after he brought the boy back to his mother&#8217;s house and a witness noticed the boy&#8217;s injuries and called police. He has been charged with attempted murder and assault, but those are expected to be upgraded after the boy&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n<p>Cyndy Williams, the boy&#8217;s mother, said on Wednesday, that she had warned the Administration for Children\u2019s Services about Morrison, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/queens-toddler-dies-days-after-brutal-beating-officials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PIX11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 2-year-old boy has died after his father allegedly beat him at a Queens homeless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-124668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}