1-Year-Old Is Killed, and Mother’s Boyfriend Is Arrested

The infant, Legacy Beauford, was one of two young boys in New York who the police believe were recently killed by their mothers’ partners.

Whatever was bothering 1-year-old Legacy Beauford the night before he died, all he could do was cry. That frustrated his mother’s boyfriend, Keishawn Gordon, who was babysitting for him overnight on Wednesday. When police questioned Mr. Gordon about Legacy’s injuries after the baby died on Thursday, he initially told investigators that he gently squeezed the boy’s stomach and tossed him in the air to pacify him in the family’s apartment in the Bronx’s Webster Houses, according to a criminal complaint filed in court after Mr. Gordon was arrested on Friday.