Keishawn Gordon Murdered, Sexually Assaulted Legacy Beauford: DA

Keishawn Gordon

A Bronx, New York man has been indicted for beating his girlfriend’s toddler son to demise after sexually assaulting the child with a toothbrush, Bronx District Authorized skilled Darcel D. Clark announced Monday. Keishawn Gordon, 24, was arrested in September after he allegedly knowledgeable police he “mushed” 1-year-old Legacy Beauford because of the boy’s incessant crying was “irking” him.

“The defendant, Keishawn Gordon, allegedly carried out monstrous acts in opposition to defenseless one-year-old Legacy Beauford. Gordon allegedly inflicted blunt energy trauma on the child, leaving him with a lacerated liver, and allegedly sexually abused the toddler. We’ll search justice for the innocent teen, who suffered so much,” DA Clark talked about in a press launch.

Displaying sooner than Bronx Supreme Court docket docket Justice Efrain Alvarado, Gordon was arraigned on two counts of second-degree murder, and one rely each of first-degree manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, and first-degree aggravated sexual abuse.

Officers with the New York Metropolis Police Division at roughly 3 p.m. on Sept. 9 responded to a 911 title about an unresponsive toddler on the Webster Residence apartment shared by Gordon and Legacy’s mother at 420 E. 169th Street. Upon arriving on the scene, first-responders reportedly found an unconscious Legacy in a mattress room and tried to hold out life-saving procedures sooner than dashing him to the shut by Bronx Care Properly being System. No matter efforts to revive the toddler, the sufferer didn’t regain consciousness and was pronounced ineffective shortly after being admitted.

As previously reported by Regulation&Crime, detectives questioned Gordon, who talked about he was babysitting the child in a single day whereas Legacy’s mother Jessica Melendez was at work. Requested regarding the in depth bruising that coated the child’s physique, Gordon initially knowledgeable detectives that every one he did was squeeze the toddler’s stomach gently and toss him up and down in an attempt to get him to stop crying, authorities talked about. Nonetheless investigators continued to press Gordon, who finally admitted that he punched the crying baby and sexually assaulted him.

“I was irritated he wouldn’t stop crying. He saved throwing up,” Gordon talked about, in keeping with the criticism. “I mushed him. He was irking me.”

According to DA Clark, the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Legacy’s demise was a homicide introduced on by “blunt energy trauma accidents to the torso, which led to a lacerated liver and internal bleeding.”

“The defendant moreover allegedly sexually abused the child with a toothbrush,” the press launch acknowledged.

The New York Events beforehand reported {{that a}} detective with the NYPD’s Explicit Victims Unit on July 14 and social workers have been tasked with investigating a tip that Legacy’s older brother was a sufferer of ongoing sexual abuse throughout the residence. The investigation was reportedly closed sooner than police interviewed or examined each teen, a person talked about to be briefed on the case reportedly knowledgeable the newspaper.

The New York Publish reported that Gordon had beforehand been arrested 18 cases (seven of the arrests have been for felonies). Gordon was charged with felony assault in 2018 for allegedly grabbing a woman by the neck and slamming her to the bottom and theft in 2019.

A GoFundMe page beforehand set as a lot as help the family with funeral costs talked about that Legacy Beauford was “an beautiful teen of God.”

[image via NYPD]

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