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MURRAY, Utah (AP) -- A man who allegedly told police he threw a 2-year-old boy across a room has been booked for investigation of child-abuse homicide.
Jaden Cangro died Monday night, and Phillip J. Guymon, 29, was arrested and booked into Salt Lake County jail,
Jaden, his 5-year-old sister, their mother and her boyfriend, Guymon, lived together in a house.
Guymon was caring for the children Monday while their mother was at work, police said.
A police statement said Guymon told investigators the boy was crying and Guymon placed him in a crib or bed and shut the door.
He later went back into the room and, "he screamed and the child fell out of the bed and onto his head," the report said.
Guymon then picked up the boy by the back of his shirt "and threw him across the room," according to the report. The boy landed about nine feet away.
The child simply lay there with his rear end in the air "and his arms were all contorted," according to the report. Guymon called police and said the boy was not breathing.
Detective Kenny Bass said both old and new bruising was found on the child,
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