Opinion ID: 2600609
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Events the Day of the Murder, October 10, 1995

Text: On October 10, 1995, defendant arrived home around 9:00 or 10:00 a.m., having spent the night elsewhere. He and Kesha took a shower together. Around 2:30 p.m., Hill used defendant's car to take herself and her friend Kelly Salay to run some errands, leaving Kesha with defendant. In the late afternoon, neighbor David Campa, who lived in a house in front of defendant's converted-garage apartment, heard defendant say, Get up. That didn't hurt. On previous occasions, Campa had heard a baby crying and defendant saying shut up or stop. This time, he did not hear any crying. Hill dropped Salay off and returned home about 4:00 or 4:30 p.m. Defendant ran outside the apartment to meet her at the gate and appeared very flustered. He said he wanted to tell her what happened before she went into the apartment and freaked out. Hill replied, Something always happens when you are watching her. Defendant said he had been holding Kesha while they were watching a movie, when she defecated on him. He said they had to take another shower together, and that the water burned her, although, inexplicably, it had not burned him. He told Hill he had never seen anything like it before, and that he was really sorry. When Hill went inside, Kesha was lying on the floor, her head against the carpet, whimpering and trying to get up against the wall. Hill wanted to take her to the emergency room, but defendant opposed doing so, saying that it was not as bad as it looked. Sometime between 25 and 45 minutes later, Hill asked defendant to go to the store to get some juice for Kesha. Hill applied some Neosporin to her burns just before defendant left. Defendant first went to Salay's house and told her that Kesha had been burned by hot water in the shower. Salay asked how bad the burns were, and defendant told her Kesha was fine. They talked about other things for about 45 minutes to an hour, and then defendant and Salay went to the store, where defendant asked several people there about what would be good for a little girl who was not feeling well and who had burns. He said that Kesha had diarrhea and vomiting, and that her immune system was so weak that she got blisters in the shower. After spending about 15 minutes at the market, he bought some soup and juice and they left. Defendant dropped off Salay and returned home sometime after 5:30 p.m. Kesha was able to drink the juice defendant had bought. Defendant moved Kesha to the bed, but she went limp while he was holding her. Defendant told Hill to clear out the sink and run some lukewarm water to revive Kesha. She said she wanted to call 911, but defendant yelled at her to run the water. She complied, but Kesha did not respond. Defendant then tried to administer CPR, and fluid came out of Kesha's mouth. When defendant had his back turned, Hill ran to the house of neighbor David Campa and called 911. At 6:50 p.m., paramedics received a report of a baby not breathing and arrived at defendant's apartment within one minute. They discovered Kesha lying naked on the floor. She was pale and unconscious, and there were several burns about her body in a splash pattern that appeared to have been caused by a liquid. They determined she was not breathing and had no pulse. They began CPR, but got no response. Questioned by paramedics, defendant stated that Kesha had been fine all day, had been taken into the shower four or five minutes before the paramedics had arrived, and had no problem with the shower. However, when he placed Kesha on the floor, she began coughing up phlegm and stopped breathing. Taken to the emergency room, Kesha was examined by Dr. Frye, who had previously seen her on her emergency room visit of September 30. Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful, and she was declared dead at approximately 7:30 p.m. Dr. Frye noticed numerous bruises of different ages on her body, including ones that had not been present when he previously examined her. She had burns across her body, from her scalp down to her groin area.