2 Charged With Murder in Day Care Death of 1-Year-Old

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New York|2 Charged With Murder in Day Care Death of 1-Year-Old https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/nyregion/opioid-bronx-daycare-fentanyl-murder-charge.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The owner of the day care center and a neighbor were charged in the death of Nicholas Dominici, who the police believe had been exposed to an opioid.
Police investigating the scene at a day care center in the Bronx after a 1-year-old boy died and three other young children were hospitalized on Friday
Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times Sept. 17, 2023Updated 7:14 p.m. ET A day care center operator and her neighbor were charged with murder in the death of a 1-year-old boy who had just started at the center and was exposed to opioids there in his first week, the police and his family said.
Grei Mendez, 36, who ran Divino Niño in the Bronx, and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, a 41-year-old man who lived at the address listed for the day care center, were both arrested Saturday evening on a count of murder showing “depraved indifference” in the death of Nicholas Feliz Dominici.