LAFAYETTE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – A Mississippi man has been sentenced in connection to the death of a one-year-old child.

The Oxford Eagle reported Matthew Brown entered a plea agreement that reduced his charge from capital murder to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 12 years suspended.

With one year of credit from time already served, the newspaper reported Brown will serve an additional seven years. He will be on supervised probation for seven years, followed by five years of unsupervised probation.

On March 22, 2024, the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call regarding an unresponsive child on County Road 520. When they arrived they began to perform life-saving measures. The baby later died at a Memphis hospital.

According to investigators, the child, who was not related to Brown, suffered head trauma and had bruises on his body.