FORT RANSOM, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman accused of killing her toddler son allegedly told authorities the boy hit his head as she was struggling with him to change his diaper.

A state crime bureau agent says in his investigative report that 22-month-old Bentley Lindvall apparently suffered many previous suspicious injuries.

Jodi Lindvall, 28, of Fort Ransom, is charged with murder and child abuse in the death of her son last month. She could face up to life in prison if convicted.

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According to court documents, Lindvall told investigators that during the diaper-change struggle with her son on Sept. 18, his head fell back and struck the floor, The Forum reported (http://bit.ly/SyiB32 ). Medical staff told crime bureau agents that the boy suffered life-threatening head trauma before being brought to the hospital, where he died Sept. 22.

The boy also had “numerous suspicious bruises and healing fractures,” Bureau of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Shelby Franklin said in his report.

In another interview with investigators, Lindvall said she saw her live-in boyfriend, John Holub, violently shake her son, according to the court filing.

Holub hasn’t been charged, and his attorney, Bruce Quick, said Holub denies any involvement in the boy’s injuries.

“In fact, he wasn’t even home at the time. He didn’t get home until after the child was apparently laying on the floor of the bedroom,” Quick told the newspaper.

Lindvall was released from jail on $10,000 cash bail. She is due back in court Oct. 17.

Police are looking for the masked gunman who shot five people in Camden, two fatally, Saturday night in what sources said might have stemmed from an earlier dispute at a birthday outing at a bowling alley.

All five victims were seated in a burgundy Chevrolet Lumina parked in an alley behind the 2500 block of Morgan Boulevard in the Morgan Village section of the city about 11:40 p.m. when a masked man walked up to the car, got in the driver’s side and fired into it repeatedly, according to a statement from Camden County Prosecutor Warren Faulk and Camden Police Chief Scott Thomson.

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Killed were Jewel Manire, 18, address unknown, and Khalil Gibson, 20, of Camden. A 16-year-old female was critically injured with a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.

A 20-year-old female from Camden was shot in the face and another 16-year-old female from Camden was shot in the arm and shoulder. She was able to get out of the vehicle and call 911.

Authorities said they could not confirm if the shooting and the bowling alley incident were connected.

Faulk and Thomson provided the following chain of events:

After the shootings, the gunman pushed Manire out of the driver’s seat and drove the car with the four victims still in it to a dirt road off the 2500 block of Morgan Boulevard. There, the 20-year-old victim jumped from the vehicle and ran. The shooter chased her but she was able to escape.

The gunman, described as Hispanic and about 6 feet tall, wore a black mask over the lower part of his face and yellow latex gloves. He was last seen running toward basketball courts on a field near Morgan Boulevard carrying a machete along with a gun.

It is unknown whether he knew the victims.

The victims are being treated at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. The girl shot in the head and the 20-year-old are in critical condition.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Investigator John Hunsinger at 856-365-3239 or Camden Police Detective Shawn Donlon at 856-757-7420. Information may also be e-mailed to ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org.

Relatives of the injured who are gathered at Cooper declined comment.

The killings bring the city’s homicide total this year to 50, eight short of the record reached in 1995.

Officials are investigating after the remains of two people were found in a burned vehicle.

The Breathitt County Coroner says there is a death investigation underway outside Jackson, but they are looking into the possibility of a homicide.

He says over the weekend two bodies were found in a newer model Ford Fusion along Highway 1098 at South Fork near Elk View.

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The remains inside are believed to be those of a man and a woman, but they were apparently so badly burned they were impossible to identify.

The car and the remains have been taken to Frankfort. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday morning.