Five-month-old Raamse Lan’Pharay Morris was brought to the University of Chicago Medical Center on July 28, 2017, after seizures and was found to have multiple injuries, including brain trauma. He was transferred to Comer Children’s Hospital and died of those injuries on August 5, 2017. The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide in October 2017, citing multiple injuries due to child abuse.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated allegations of abuse and neglect; allegations against the boy’s mother were ruled unfounded and that investigation was closed on April 23, 2018. Attention subsequently focused on the child’s father, 20-year-old Raamse Morris, identified as the primary caregiver at the time. He was arrested in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood on August 30, 2018, on a fugitive arrest warrant and charged with first-degree murder; he was ordered held without bail at his initial court appearance.

If anyone knew Raamse Lan’Pharay Morris or has information about what happened in late July 2017, please come forward.