Overview

• Officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. Monday to a home near South Main Street and West Santa Fe Avenue in Placentia.
• A woman and her child were found with injuries and transported in critical condition, and the child was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
• Police said the mother reported she had stepped away while bathing the boy in a plastic tub and returned to find him face down and unresponsive.
• Investigators have questioned additional relatives, no arrests have been made, and officers were seeking a search warrant to examine the home.
• Video from the scene showed a man entering a patrol vehicle as crime scene tape and multiple patrol cars remained in place overnight, and his role was not disclosed.