Man indicted in Columbus two-year-old’s death after being arrested in Massachusetts

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A 25-year-old man who was arrested in Massachusetts in late August and charged in the 2020 death of a Columbus 2-year-old has now been indicted.

Court documents in Franklin County Common Pleas Court said that Dioblis Williams has been indicted on charges of murder and endangering children. On March 25, 2020, Jamir Jones, the son of Williams’ girlfriend at the time, died after suffering blunt force trauma.

Williams was reportedly babysitting and called police, who found Jones unresponsive at an apartment on Holt Avenue in North Central Columbus. Jones was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Police said that he told officers that while he was babysitting, the boy “pooped” in his pull up and that he placed the child in the bathtub unsupervised. Several minutes later, the boy was found unconscious…

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