A Letcher County juvenile has been charged with murder after a 4-month-old baby was found dead over an embankment behind a home Friday morning.
Kentucky State Police say they were called out to a home on Turner Drive in the Neon community around 5:00 a.m. Friday on reports of a missing baby. The infant, 4-month-old Blayze Alexander Smith, was found around 6:40 a.m. over an embankment behind the home.
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The Letcher County Coroner said the child died of blunt force trauma to the head. KSP has not commented on a possible motive or how the juvenile suspect might be related to the victim.
KSP says the juvenile was taken to the Breathitt County Juvenile Detention Center.
