TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday before finding Tony Balcom guilty as charged in the 2023 death of three-year-old Enrique Evans.
Balcom was convicted of aggravated manslaughter of a child and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The toddler’s mother, Cameren Evans, was found guilty of the same charge earlier this year and is serving a 19-year prison sentence.
Little Enrique Evans was found unresponsive in Balcom’s Roberts Avenue apartment back on January 23, 2023.
The medical examiner later discovered the child had ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl, which prosecutors argued Balcom failed to secure in his room…