Minnetrista Police, Sheriff Announce Arrests in Connection with Toddler's Homicide
Second-degree murder charges were filed Thursday against the boy's mother and her 20-year-old boyfriend. Both are in custody.
It’s been nearly four months since Cottrell Short was found unresponsive inside his St. Bonifacious home. On Thursday Minnetrista police and Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek announced the arrest of two suspects in connection with the toddler’s death. Shacara Foster, the boy’s mother, and her boyfriend Kentae Todd, 20, both now face second-degree murder and child neglect charges. Foster was already incarcerated in the Hennepin County jail on neglect charges, and Todd was arrested without incident in Coon Rapids Thursday morning. Both are expected to make their first court appearance in the coming days. Cottrell Short had been to the pediatrician exactly one month before his death, passing his infant development inventory and declared …
kathy
11:51 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
How was Todd arrested at his mothers home, when one of the conditions to get her other children back is, he or his 19 year old brother were"NOT" to be around their younger siblings? STATE OF MINNESOTA: DO YOUR JOB!!!!!! more ›