Houston father accused of beating infant daughter to death

The day before her death, Yeimy’s parents brought her to the doctor for a routine hearing test before the three took a trip to Target along the North Freeway at Cypresswood Drive, Houston Police Department homicide detectives said in court documents. While there, deputies arrested Yeimy’s mother on a shoplifting charge, meaning the two children were left with Lizcano for the ride home, according to court documents.

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Later that night, Lizcano, the grandmother, her boyfriend and the two children went shopping bond companies to help bail Lizcano’s wife out of jail. Their attempts to bail her out that night were apparently unsuccessful, court records show.

The five returned home around midnight that night, and the grandmother and her boyfriend went to sleep, court records show. It was between then and around 4 a.m. that Yeimy was injured.

The family barged into the emergency room at Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital at 4:11 a.m. that morning with Yeimy appearing lifeless, records show. She was pronounced dead by a doctor a mere seven minutes later.

When speaking with detectives, Lizcano said he left Yeimy in the care of his two-year-old daughter on his bed while he washed dishes in the kitchen, court records show. He claimed that the older daughter ran into the kitchen and said Yeimy fell off the bed, police said.

Lizcano then told police that he told his older daughter to pick up her younger sister, which is when she accidentally dropped her again on her face, records show. He told detectives that the couple typically allowed the older daughter to carry Yeimy, they said.

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When police interviewed Lizcano’s wife, who was released from jail the day after Yeimy was killed, she said they never allowed the older daughter to carry Yeimy. She also picked up on other inconsistencies that detectives noticed, such as Lizcano’s frequently changing story, detectives said.

She indicated to detectives that she believed Lizcano was angry because he might have thought the baby was fathered by another man, court records show.

Ultimately, an autopsy determined that Yeimy died of multiple skull fractures and a brain bleed, none of which were consistent with Lizcano’s story or could have been caused accidentally, police said.