{"id":172385,"date":"2026-03-23T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172385\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:48:38","slug":"father-charged-with-murder-after-beating-2-year-old-son-in-queens-shelter-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172385\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Charged With Murder After Beating 2-Year-Old Son In Queens Shelter: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> QUEENS, NY \u2014 A Queens man has been charged with murder in the shocking death of his 2-year-old son, whom he allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/queens\/toddler-dies-injuries-after-father-beats-him-nyc-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beat earlier this year<\/a>, police said. <\/p>\n<p> Dayvon Morrison, 30, was indicted this week on two counts of murder after the medical examiner ruled the death of his son, Maliek, a homicide, authorities said.  <\/p>\n<p> Morrison was first arrested last month after bringing the boy to his mother\u2019s home in Manhattan, where witnesses spotted the child\u2019s severe injuries and called police. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;A parent\u2019s most sacred responsibility is ensuring the safety of their children,&#8221; Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement. &#8220;As alleged, this defendant chose to abandon that solemn duty when he inflicted life-threatening injuries on his 2-year-old son, Maliek, and then let him suffer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Prosecutors say Morrison was the sole caretaker of Maliek and his young daughter on Jan. 30 and 31, when the boy suffered his fatal injuries. <\/p>\n<p> On Feb. 2 at about 1:30 a.m., Morrison arrived in Manhattan to drop off his daughter, hiding Maliek in the stroller\u2019s undercarriage \u2014 a storage space \u2014 for roughly two hours before moving him to the seat. <\/p>\n<p> Witnesses then noticed the toddler\u2019s dire condition and alerted authorities. <\/p>\n<p> Rushed to a local hospital and placed on a ventilator, Maliek had a blown right pupil, fractured pelvis, lacerated liver, brain stem damage, multiple brain bleeds, severe brain swelling and other injuries; he died two days later. <\/p>\n<p> Maliek&#8217;s mother, Cyndy Williams, said she had previously 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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIX11<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI fought for my son. I warned ACS, the courts, NYPD. Everybody. But now y\u2019all can hear me? Now y\u2019all can hear me?\u201d Williams told the media last month. <\/p>\n<p> Last week, Queens Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant remanded Morrison and ordered him to return to court on May 1. If convicted, Morrison faces up to 25 years to life in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A Queens man has been charged with murder in the shocking death of his 2-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-172385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172385","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=172385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}