The suspect was identified as Prospero Serna of San Bernardino County.
discovered four of his children injured — two of them fatally — has been formally arrested on suspicion of murder and child abuse, sheriff’s officials said on Monday, Oct 30.
Deputies were dispatched at about 11:50 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 1800 block of East Avenue J-2 on a child abuse call. “The call stated children were being harmed at the location,” according to a Sheriff’s Department statement on Sunday. “Upon arrival, deputies contacted a female adult and conducted a check of the location. Deputies found four children under the age of 10 suffering from lacerations.”
The children were hospitalized, with two pronounced dead and the other two with non-life-threatening injuries.“Prospero Serna, the father of the children, was initially detained as a person of interest in the case,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on Monday. “Homicide detectives determined there was sufficient evidence to arrest Prospero Serna for the crimes of murder and child abuse.
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