Monee police and the Will County state’s attorney’s office said are investigating the death of a 2-month-old Wisconsin boy who had been staying overnight with his parents at a Monee truck stop and suffered a medical emergency.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office had determined that the boy, Sevyn Simmons, of Milwaukee, suffered blunt-force head trauma and ruled his death a homicide.
The boy died just before 8 a.m. Sept. 2 at the University of Chicago Medicine’s Comer Children’s Hospital.
Police said they responded just before 9 a.m. Aug. 31 to the Petro Truck Stop, 5915 Monee Manhattan Road, just east of Interstate 57, for a call of an infant in distress and not breathing.
Police and paramedics responded, and paramedics were able to resuscitate the infant, who was taken to Franciscan Health in Olympia Fields, then transferred to Comer, police said.
Police said the infant was in the care of his parents, and they were staying overnight in a truck at the truck stop before planning to return to Wisconsin the following day. The mother was listed as being from Green Bay and the father from Milwaukee.
The parents told police the infant had not been ill and did not know why he quit breathing, police said.
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