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Briefs

Baby tossed from car, thrown into canal

By TIMES WIRES
Published April 28, 2006

DELRAY BEACH - A man was charged with first-degree murder Thursday after he tossed his infant son from a car, slammed him onto the vehicle's hood and later threw him into a canal, police said.

Charles Edward Tyson, 20, admitted tossing his son into the canal, Delray Beach police spokesman Jeffrey Messer said.

"Our detectives were just dumbfounded," Messer said.

Tyson and the child's mother, Shameka Mosley, 17, were driving with 9-month-old Charles Edward Tyson Jr. early Thursday when Tyson accused her of cheating on him, according to an arrest report.

Mosley stopped the car and Tyson tossed the child out of the window, according to the report. The man then "slammed the infant's head onto the hood of Mosley's vehicle," it said.

Tyson sped off in the car and later stopped and threw the child in the canal, it said.

Authorities found the boy floating nearby and tried unsuccessfully to revive him.

FORT LAUDERDALE - An appeals court has overturned the third-degree murder conviction of a man who prosecutors claimed injected a woman with a fatal dose of silicone at a private "pumping party."

An associate medical examiner testified at a 2003 trial that the injections Mark Hawkins, 41, gave Vera Lawrence, 53, caused her death. But the examiner, Dr. Erston Price, was not qualified to determine that because she had no expertise in silicone migration rates, the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach ruled Wednesday.

Lawrence received the injections to enhance her buttocks at an apartment in March 2001. At trial, Price gave the only testimony supporting the prosecution's claim. A defense expert said she died as a result of chronic use of silicone, not because of what she got that day.

Price formerly worked for the Broward County medical examiner and now works for the Palm Beach County medical examiner. She had no comment, a co-worker said Wednesday.

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