MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A man is in custody after allegedly harming a girl who later died Thursday in Marion County, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies responded around noon to the 16500 block of NE 44th Avenue, in Citra, to help Marion County Fire Rescue with an unresponsive female child, the sheriff’s office said on social media.
The girl was taken to a local hospital where she was ultimately pronounced dead, the post states.
According to the sheriff’s office, deputies at the scene were told that a man at the property had harmed the child.
The agency’s Major Crimes detectives are investigating the incident as a homicide, the post states, adding the suspect was in custody for questioning at the time of this writing.
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