A toddler is in Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, fighting for his life. Amir Bennett loves green; he always smiled and laughed and was a happy baby, according to his grandmother, Shannon Boyd.
“He was a great baby, he didn’t cry, he smiled all the time,” she said.
But that changed on Sept. 25, 2024.
“He didn’t deserve what he got,” Boyd explained.
Cleveland police were called to the hospital for an unresponsive toddler.
The police report said the boy’s mother, Aryiel Bennett, left her son with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Ronnie Chambers and went to work. According to the police report, when she got home and checked on Amir, he was fine.
That’s when, according to the police report, Bennett and Chambers got into an argument.
“I guess he tried to shoot her or shot the gun it went into the wall; she ran out of the apartment and when she came back two to three minutes later Amir was bleeding from the head,” she explained.
The report said Bennett told police Chambers took out a gun and fired a shot, hitting the boy who was sleeping. Police said in the report that the mother’s story changed several times during the investigation.