2-month-old boy discovered not breathing at home in Lancaster, dies

LANCASTER, Calif. (CNS) — Detectives are investigating the death of a 2-month-old boy found not breathing at a home in Lancaster, authorities said.

Deputies were dispatched at 8:19 a.m. Sunday to a report of a child not breathing at a home in the 44000 block of Beech Avenue, according to a watch commander at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster station.

Paramedics were dispatched to the home at 8:21 a.m. but did not take anyone to a hospital, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department public information officer.

No further information was immediately available.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.