Anthony Ball: Bulletin: Ongoing trial: Prosecution case: Day two of jury trial: Second day of jury trial..."Anthony Ball denied several times he fatally injured his girlfriend's daughter nearly two years ago. Two police investigators testified Wednesday that Ball said he found Athena Ramey unconscious on a futon and didn't know how she suffered a serious head injury."Battle Creek Enquirer; Reporter Trace Christenson. December 7, 2016;

"Anthony Ball denied several times he fatally injured his girlfriend's daughter nearly two years ago.
Two police investigators testified Wednesday that Ball said he found Athena Ramey unconscious on a futon and didn't know how she suffered a serious head injury. "He said he didn't know what happened to the child," Calhoun County Sheriff Department Detective Steve Hinkley said. "But his story changed after an interview by telling me Brianna (Richards) shook the child at 9 a.m. He had said she didn't do anything to the child." The 20-month-old daughter of Richards was found by Ball unconscious on Dec. 18, 2014, in their Marshall home. She died the next day at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo of what doctors and investigators said was a severe brain injury. Ball, 30, was later charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse and faces life in prison without parole if convicted on both charges. Testimony from the detectives came Wednesday, on the second day of the jury trial before Circuit Judge John Hallacy. The trial continues Thursday with the first of several medical witnesses discussing the cause of death. The trial is expected to continue into next week." Hinkley said he was called to begin the investigation about two hours after the child was taken to the hospital. He said the county's Major Crimes Task Force was activated so several detectives were working on the case. At the hospital Hinkley said he found Richards crying and upset, but Ball "didn't seem to have any emotion. He didn't seem to be upset at all." Ball told the detective he was caring for the child and his two daughters at their apartment in the 500 block of West Michigan Avenue in Marshall while Richards was working at an an adult care foster home south of the city. In his interview with Hinkley, Ball said he was fixing dinner for the children after putting a sleeping Athena on the futon. But about 90 minutes later he was unable to wake her and said her lips were blue. Ball told the detective that Athena had a respiratory infection, had bumped her head earlier that day on a table, had fallen and had been in a car with her grandfather, Darrin Martin, that struck a deer on Dec. Martin testified his granddaughter was in a car seat and was not injured and Ball acknowledged to police that Athena didn't show any symptoms from the fall or bumping into the table. The day after Athena was injured, Ball was interviewed by Lt. Marco Hernandez of the Michigan State Police in Lansing. Hernandez said Wednesday he pushed Ball, saying only he or Richards could have injured the child. "He denied Bri did anything," Hernandez said, until Ball was told that the child died.  "He put his head in his hands and appeared to cry but not very long," Hernandez said, and eventually said he observed Richards, who was pregnant with his child, shake Athena about 9 a.m. on the day the little girl was injured. He told investigators he didn't tell them about the shaking because he wanted to protect Richards. Hernandez said Ball showed him how Richards shook the little girl but when the officer said that would not be enough force, Ball demonstrated again only harder."
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