A brave eight-year-old boy was beaten to death with a baseball bat after he tried to protect his mother from her apparently abusive boyfriend.
Leland ‘Lee’ Arnett died four days after he was struck in the head with a bat during a domestic violence incident at his family home in De Soto, Illinois on May 13.
His accused killer Marcus Moultrie, 36, also allegedly attacked his mother Deborah Snider that same night, according to court records obtained by WSIL.
Police were called to the residence around 11pm for reports of a domestic disturbance and found Snider unconscious. Lee had been suffering from a ‘serious’ head
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