Omari Jones-Pearce, a 1-year-old Black male from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, died on June 14, 2019, after what first sounded like a drowning call at Creekwood Village Apartments on 40th Avenue. First responders were sent to the apartment around 7 a.m. after reports that a baby had been found in a bathtub. He was discovered unresponsive, taken to a local hospital, and pronounced dead there. In the first account given to police, the child had been left in the care of his mother’s boyfriend while she wa
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