A Colorado father has been arrested for tried homicide after he allegedly tried to kill his 5-year-old son by dumping him in frigid waters in Denver final week.
Michael Ninomiya, 42, and his son had been pulled out from the frigid waters of a fenced-off drainage culvert alongside the Excessive Line Canal on the Cherry Creek Path on January 12. Each had been hospitalized after their rescue, with the kid listed in crucial situation, in accordance with an affidavit, obtained by Fox 31.
Two days later, the Denver Police Division tweeted a crime alert looking for data from the general public as to how the boy acquired his life-threatening accidents. Ninomiya was arrested on Wednesday.
Ninomiya confessed that he tried to kill his son in interviews with cops.
He advised cops that he pulled his son into the water and bodily assaulted him to a degree the place he was not sure whether or not the boy was nonetheless respiration, in accordance with charging paperwork.
He mentioned he then started hurting himself “to make it seem like an accident” earlier than he determined to name for assist.
The boy’s mom advised police that Ninomiya and the kid had left to go on an “journey” that morning, however turned involved when it grew darkish they usually hadn’t returned.
The boy stays hospitalized on the Kids’s Hospital Colorado in crucial situation because of fluctuating strain in his mind, police told Fox News.
Data present that Ninomiya has a historical past of psychological well being remedy and was recognized with schizophrenia whereas he was in his 20s.
He’s charged with tried first-degree homicide, tried first-degree homicide of a sufferer beneath 12, and tried baby abuse that will knowingly or recklessly trigger demise.
