Overview

• The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled Kayson Flowers’s death a homicide after finding multiple injuries consistent with child abuse.
• Detectives said Kayson, who had spent a week with his father, had been deceased for six to eight hours before being returned unresponsive to his mother on April 28.
• Kayson was found unresponsive at his home in the 200 block of West 106th Street on April 26 and was pronounced dead at Roseland Hospital on April 28.
• Chicago police, who have not filed any charges, say they are investigating the case and encourage anyone with information to submit anonymous tips.
• Community leaders and the Flowers family describe the infant’s death as a moral crisis, with Kayson’s mother seeking counseling amid calls for justice.