“Feeling hopeless and alone, the child attempted suicide,’’ attorney Tommy James said. "The staff refused to take him to the hospital until the next day.”
Capital murder indictment issued in blunt force trauma death of 2-year-old Jefferson County boy
Updated 12:53 PM;
Today 12:45 PM
Demetric Hampton Sr. is charged with capital murder in the 2020 death of his 2-year-old Demetric Hampton Jr.
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A Jefferson County grand jury upped the charges against a father previously arrested in the blunt force trauma death of his young son.
Demetric Hampton Sr., 27, was initially charged with murder in the 2020 death of 2-year-old Demetric Hampton Jr. The grand jury indicted him April 9, 2021 on charges of capital murder and aggravated child abuse, according to newly-released court records. The boy’s stepmother, Terrica Harris, was indicted on a single charge of aggravated child abuse.
‘His death should have never happened’: Lawsuit filed in Jefferson County toddler’s 2020 death
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Thursday in the 2020 death of a 2-year-old Jefferson County boy.
Birmingham attorneys Tommy James of Tommy James Law and Jeremy Knowles of Morris Haynes represent Demetric Jr.’s estate. They filed the lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the director of the Jefferson County Department of Human Resources, Hampton Sr. and yet-to-be identified DHR caseworkers.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies at 12:30 a.m. that Wednesday were called to the 1600 block of Sixth Street N.W. in Center Point on a report of a child not breathing. When they arrived on the scene, the parents told lawmen he had been eating and then began to choke. The boy was taken to Children’s of Alabama where doctors discovered he had multiple injuries. Demetric was pronounced dead at 1:46 a.m.