ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – A St. Louis County man was sentenced Thursday in the death of his 4-year-old son.
Blake Dopirak, 27, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty earlier this month to endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, a class A felony.
On the morning of Jan. 2, 2022, first responders went to Dopirak’s home for a report of an unresponsive 4-year-old boy, according to a Manchester Police affidavit. The boy, Dopirak’s son Zaydian Dopirak, was taken to an area hospital where doctors found multiple head injuries that doctors described as “non-accidental closed head trauma.”…