In spring 2020 a two-year-old boy named Gabriel Eason died after being found unconscious at a home in the 900 block of Division Avenue NE in Washington, D.C. Emergency responders pronounced Gabriel dead at the scene on the morning of April 1, 2020. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death homicide and listed multiple blunt force injuries as the cause.Gabriel had extensive trauma: abrasions and contusions to the head, face, and torso, multiple rib fractures (some healing), and injuries to his heart and brain.

Investigators also found that his three-year-old brother had bruises, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver. On November 3, 2020, Gabriel’s mother, 31-year-old Ta’Jeanna Eason, and her partner, 28-year-old Antonio Turner, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and cruelty to children.Turner later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and first-degree cruelty to children; Eason pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree cruelty to children.

Does anyone have information about the family or what led up to that April morning?