WECT Investigates: Father of slain two-year-old frustrated over standstill in homicide investigation
Answers still sought in the death of two-year-old boy By Ann McAdams | December 21, 2020 at 2:28 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 7:55 PM
BURGAW, N.C. (WECT) - Itâs been over three years since two-year-old Keith Stephens, Jr. was killed. An autopsy revealed the toddler died as the result of blunt force trauma and a lacerated liver. Burgaw Police launched a homicide investigation in his death, but no one has ever been arrested, and the case remains unsolved.
Stephensâ father, Keith Stephens, Sr., remains grief stricken over his young sonâs death, and devastated by investigatorsâ lack of progress.
Medical examiner takes over a year to return autopsy reports in deaths of children
Three local child homicide investigations still unsolved By Ann McAdams | December 14, 2020 at 2:25 PM EST - Updated December 14 at 7:46 PM
PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - It’s disturbing to learn about the murder of a single child. But WECT recently learned three children ages five and younger died by homicide in Pender County in a single year. All of those cases remain unsolved.
One of children, 5-year-old Paitin Fields, made headlines after she was rushed to the hospital after being sexually assaulted and strangled in 2017. She did not survive. Three years later, no one has been charged with her murder.