Herald staff
A man who was supposed to be caring for a 2-year-old boy is now charged with second-degree murder in his death.
Saksit Edmond Shane, 35, was charged Tuesday in Everett District Court. He was arrested by Everett police last week and is scheduled for a bail hearing today.
Shane was charged in the death of a neighbor boy, Jett Jared Small, who died of a head injury allegedly received while under the man’s care at his home on Maple Street in Everett.
According to court documents, Shane also is under investigation for assaulting his 12-year-old daughter after she got into trouble at school.
Shane was arrested Thursday in Mount Vernon, where he had been living while child protection workers investigated the living situation in his home.
According to documents, Shane at first told police the boy passed out and struck his head on a coffee table after eating a meal. Prosecutors said the injuries are inconsistent with that story.
Experts also told police that the damage to the boy’s brain was the equivalent of what one could suffer in a high-speed auto accident or a fall from a two-story building, deputy prosecutor John Adcock said in court last week.
When Everett detectives confronted Shane Thursday, he initially denied any knowledge of how the boy had been injured. He later blamed it on his own 2-year-old son, saying his boy struck the neighbor’s child with a metal toy car.
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