Boyfriend accused in death
A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of his girlfriend's son while he cared for the toddler. Jacky Johnson, 20, is accused of killing 1-year-old Lonnie Black on Monday. Johnson was caring for the boy in his girlfriend's apartment on Chicago's South Side when the beating occurred. Police went to the scene of the death after Johnson made an emergency call reporting he found the boy unresponsive. The Cook County medical examiner's office reports an autopsy showed the boy suffered blunt-force trauma to the head.
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