BALTIMORE — On Saturday, at 5:03 p.m., police responded to a home in the 6400 block of Sefton Avenue for an unresponsive infant. The 5 month-old baby was transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Medical staff discovered that the infant had passed the stage of rigor-mortise, and 5 month-old Noran Lee Torbet was pronounced dead shortly after arriving to the hospital.
The nature of baby-Noran’s death was immediately classified suspicious by homicide detectives. Family members of baby-Noran were questioned and detectives soon considered the infants father to be a person of interest.
Baby-Noran’s father, Jeffery McKinney, later confessed to detectives that he became frustrated when the infant would not stop crying.
McKinney told detectives he placed a pillow on top of the baby to muffle the sound of her cries. Sometime after, McKinney realized his daughter was unresponsive.
Jeffery McKinney informed detectives, that he put baby-Noran on the edge of the mattress, against the bedroom wall and piled pillows on top of her.
McKinney then went downstairs and began to ask family members if they had seen the infant. Family members searched the home and discovered the lifeless body of the 5 month-old.
The infant’s grandmother immediately began CPR while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
After consulting with the States Attorney’s Office, 23 year-old Jeffery McKinney was arrested and now faces charges of 2nd degree murder, assault and child abuse.
