{"id":257835,"date":"2025-10-29T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257835\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:49:11","slug":"man-indicted-for-murder-in-death-of-1-year-old-girl-in-south-louisville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257835\/","title":{"rendered":"Man indicted for murder in death of 1-year-old girl in south Louisville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Louisville man has been indicted for the death of a 1-year-old.Louisville Metro Police Department was called to the 1500 block of Haskin Avenue on Aug. 21, 2024, about a 1-year-old child who was unconscious and not breathing.EMS arrived on the scene and rushed the child to Norton Children&#8217;s Hospital. The baby later died at the hospital.LMPD said it arrested 24-year-old Gregory Ford on Tuesday on a fugitive bench warrant.He was indicted for murder on Monday in the death of the baby girl.&#8221;It gives me chills,&#8221; said Tymesha Thompson, neighbor, &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of kids on this street. I have kids who live here and a 1-year-old, it just it really breaks my heart.&#8221; The Jefferson County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified the 1-year-old as Evani McAfee-Wooten. Her listed cause of death is blunt force injuries.Ford is also facing charges of first-degree strangulation (domestic violence) and fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) in another case.He is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections on a $100,000 bond.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Louisville man has been indicted for the death of a 1-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Louisville Metro Police Department was called to the 1500 block of Haskin Avenue on Aug. 21, 2024, about a 1-year-old child who was unconscious and not breathing.<\/p>\n<p>EMS arrived on the scene and rushed the child to Norton Children&#8217;s Hospital. The baby later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>LMPD said it arrested 24-year-old Gregory Ford on Tuesday on a fugitive bench warrant.<\/p>\n<p>He was indicted for murder on Monday in the death of the baby girl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives me chills,&#8221; said Tymesha Thompson, neighbor, &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of kids on this street. I have kids who live here and a 1-year-old, it just it really breaks my heart.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified the 1-year-old as Evani McAfee-Wooten. Her listed cause of death is blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is also facing charges of first-degree strangulation (domestic violence) and fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) in another case.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections on a $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Louisville man has been indicted for the death of a 1-year-old.Louisville Metro Police Department was called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[139456,139459,31264,14651,4,450,29380,13097,8609,8018,139457,139461,139460,451,1493,6135,698,3,139458,452,453],"class_list":["post-257835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-1-year-old-girl","tag-24-year-old-gregory-ford","tag-baby","tag-block","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-charge","tag-child","tag-death","tag-domestic-violence","tag-first-degree-strangulation","tag-fourth-degree-assault","tag-haskin-avenue","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-norton-children","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}