of blunt force trauma.
d.c. bureau chief sam ford
live with the latest on the
investigation.
sam, what happened to the baby
is just devastating.
sam: little babies cry a lot.
according to the court
situation it wasn't where the
guy just went off because he
was afraid or got upset about
the baby crying.
this was methodical.
the 28-year-old robert smith
senior methodically would
squeeze 5-week-old robert
smith jr. to the point the
last time he killed the baby.
little robert smith junior
lived in a house on ninth
street northwest and according
to the court paper when he
cried too much for his father,
robert smith senior would
squeeze him until he stopped.
the child would cry a lot and
become fussy, he said he
squeezed the child to stop him
from crying and has done it
over the course of the child's
life.
august 4 when the child died
police said at the scene in
the night.
at first, said the child was
injured when he did c.p.r.