The 23-year-old Sumter man and father of the infant is facing charges. Author: WLTX Updated: 11:19 PM EST December 15, 2020 SUMTER, S.C. — A Sumter father is in custody after his baby boy died. The 23-year-old Sumter man and father of the infant, Dashun Malik Canty, is facing charges. According to the Sumter Police Department the mother of the 11-week-old boy told police she left the baby with his father while she went to an appointment Sunday. When she returned to her room at a Broad Street hotel, the baby was alive but unresponsive. She and a family member then drove the baby to Prisma Health Tuomey where the baby later was transferred to a Columbia hospital where the family learned he had died.