Updated December 24, 2020 12:21 a.m. EST
By Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Kimberly Boykin, the mother of 4-year-old Jaylen Boykin who died earlier this month, has been arrested and charged with felony child abuse.
DUNN A Fayetteville man has been arrested and accused of murder in the death of a Dunn 4-year-old, according to Dunn police.
Police arrested Jaquaris Lemont Harris, 20, on Monday and charged him with murder, according to a news release from the Dunn Police Department.
Police were notified by hospital staff at Betsy Johnson Hospital about the possibility of child abuse after the child died Saturday, according to the release.
Police responded to the hospital and to the 100 block of Sawyer Circle, according to the statement.
Harris is at the Harnett County Detention Center without bail.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call Investigators Matthew Matos or Matthew Norris at 910-892-2399.
DUNN, N.C. (WTVD) A Fayetteville man has been charged with murder in the death of a 4-year-old in Dunn over the weekend.
Police responded to Betsy Johnson Hospital in Dunn on Saturday after hearing about a boy that died, possibly due to child abuse. Investigators responded to the hospital and the child s home on Sawyer Circle at Dunn Village apartments.
ABC11 video showed police vehicles outside the home Saturday. Dunn police, DSS social workers and Harnett County CSI were requested to the scene.
Jaquaris Hines was arrested and charged with murder. Hines relationship with the boy is not known.
Updated December 15, 2020 6:24 p.m. EST
By Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Dunn, N.C. One young man mourns his 4-year-old son while another sits in jail, accused of the abuse that claimed the child s life.
Tracey Jackson said that he had custody of his 4-year-old, Jaylen Boykin, two years ago and had been living in Delaware.
Jackson says that his son s personality was adorable. Everybody that met him fell in love with him. He was a character. He really was. He was like an adult in a child s body.
At the urging of the Harnett County Department of Social Services, he agreed to let his son spend some time with his mother, Kimberly Boykin.