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Christopher Earl Glass Stabs Infant Son To Death Before Police Gun Him Down
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 11:32 am
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"... [A] 17-year-old suspect had kidnapped his 5-month-old baby son from a person who was taking care of the baby and drove away," said a sheriff's department news release.
Police soon learned that the suspect -- Christopher Earl Glass -- had earlier shipped text messages to the baby's mother threatening to harm their son, Christopher Earl Glass Jr.
An Amber Alert was issued.
Around mid-afternoon, authorities finally tracked down Glass' ride. The boy was with him. Deputies began shadowing Glass and while in pursuit, "they observed some kind of stabbing motion inside the vehicle," said sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida.
As police closed in, Glass crashed his vehicle then took off on foot.
As a handful of deputies chased after the suspect, others checked inside Glass' vehicle to investigate the welfare of the child. He had been butchered, stabbed multiple times.
Glass Jr., according to a police statement, was "raced to the hospital in their radio car. Unfortunately, the baby was pronounced dead at the hospital."
Meanwhile, the elder Glass -- with law enforcement officials still in pursuit -- broke into a random house in Palmdale, about 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Deputies closed in. When cornered, Glass reportedly charged deputies holding a knife.
He was fatally shot.
Glass' falling off the deep end comes as a jolt to those who knew him. According to friends and relatives, he was a proud father and a gifted athlete who had a chance to possibly play collegiate basketball.
"I had just seen him the day before," Highland High School Basketball Coach Jeff Smith told the Los Angeles Times, "and we were talking about his options for junior college and places to play basketball. He seemed normal to me.... He was talking about how big his son was getting."
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