{"id":271298,"date":"2026-06-18T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:26:07","slug":"mother-and-boyfriend-indicted-for-murdering-3-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271298\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and boyfriend indicted for murdering 3-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 A BROOKLYN MOTHER and her boyfriend were indicted Wednesday in the death of the woman\u2019s 3-year-old son Kyng Davis, who allegedly died from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynda.org\/2026\/06\/17\/brooklyn-mother-and-boyfriend-indicted-for-murder-of-three-year-old-boy-who-was-beaten-and-starved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">being beaten<\/a>, starved and neglected. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez identified the defendants as Sunshyne Davis, 25, and Robert White, 39, both of whom were living in White\u2019s car at the time of her son\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davis was arraigned Wednesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo. White will be arraigned at a later date. They were charged with second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, 2025, the defendants allegedly dropped Kyng Davis\u2019 body at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush, spoke to medical staff, then drove away. An autopsy found death from blunt force trauma and neglect with starvation and dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis innocent child allegedly suffered day after day, denied the most basic care and compassion,\u201d Gonzalez said in a release. \u201cWe will vigorously prosecute this case to secure justice for Kyng.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 A BROOKLYN MOTHER and her boyfriend were indicted Wednesday in the death of the woman\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,303,104615,5533,15312,104585,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-271298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-donald-leo","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-kings-county-supreme-court-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-kyng-davis","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271298","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=271298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}