St. Louis man charged in beating, burning death of tot

ST. LOUIS -- The circuit attorney this afternoon charged a 23-year-old St. Louis man in the beating and burning death of a 2-year-old child over the weekend, police said.
The man -- Montrell Moore, of the 2000 block of Destrehan Street, near the city's Hyde Park -- was charged with first-degree murder, felony abuse of a child and felony endangering the welfare of a child, said Katie O'Sullivan, spokeswoman for the St. Louis police department.

Moore is being held in the St. Louis City jail in lieu of a $1 million, cash-only bond.

Police said that at 8:10 a.m. on Saturday, an ambulance arrived at where the child -- Samar Brown -- was staying in the 1900 block of Mallinckrodt Street, a few blocks from Moore's home. Police said that Moore is the boyfriend of Samar's mother.

When paramedics arrived at the home, Samar was not breathing and was unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 8:51 a.m. on Saturday.

The St. Louis medical examiner conducted an autopsy and found the child had died from blunt force trauma. Samar also suffered a lacerated spleen, a lacerated liver and other internal injuries, O'Sullivan said.

After an investigation by homicide detectives, police discovered that Moore had killed the child, O'Sullivan said.

Comment by pid213 on June 30, 2009 at 11:20am: see niggaz like that just need to die,i mean torture these muthafuckaz slow for dayz and put that shit on tv so any other muthfucka that feel like this nigga could think twice. FUCK THAT NIGGA,FUCK HIS MAMA,THE BITCH AINT SHIT FOR HAVIN HIM!!!! p.i.d. i just put it down muthafuckaz

Comment by slick B on June 30, 2009 at 12:44pm: FUCK THAT NIGGA

Comment by FAT DADDY on June 30, 2009 at 1:07pm: PUT A DICK IN THE NIGGA MOUTH AND TAKE HIS FUCKING HEAD OFF

Comment by Big baby gzus on June 30, 2009 at 1:28pm: Bring to Mississippi,strip'em down buttnaked,tie his ass up outside in the mosquito's hands and feet ducttaped,then right before he passout set his ass on fire ,put'em out after a lil while ,if he survive,seen his ass to da gas chamber!!!!

Comment by Big baby gzus on June 30, 2009 at 1:30pm: THREW WIT IT!!!

Comment by digemmo on June 30, 2009 at 9:52pm: they gonna fuck him up in prison

Comment by Santo "masquetu" Domingo on July 1, 2009 at 3:57am: THAT NIGGA IN "PC" RIGHT NOW. ON SUM SUICIDE WATCH SHIT. CUM ON MAN a 2 year old....HE AINT GOING TO MAKE IT....BEHIND THE WALL.... HE FINNA FEEL IT. "DEATH PENALTY" or "SUICIDE" CUZ He AINT GOING TO MAKE IT ....NO LIE.