A man accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death told police he did so to discipline the boy, according to the man’s arrest affidavit.
Alexander Martinez-Armstrong, 24, was watching the boy when he stopped breathing. Police responded at about 10 p.m. on May 16, to the 14100 block of East Tennessee Avenue. The boy was taken to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The Arapahoe County Coroner’s office identified the boy as Alexander Jose Sarmiento. His death was ruled a homicide. Police in the affidavit wrote that at the time of his death, the boy had multiple significant injuries that were in various stages of healing…