A man is on the run after his girfriend's four-year-old daughter was found beaten to death in a hotel room. Anfernee Devante Steele claimed little Jo’nyri Hawkins had fallen in the bath but a post-mortem ruled she died of blunt force trauma consistent with physical abuse.
New Orleans police obtained a warrant to arrest the 21-year-old on suspicion of second-degree murder and cruelty to a juvenile but he has not been seen since Thursday.
Jo'nyri 's mum had left her in Steele's care at a hotel in central New Orleans for a few hours and returned to find the child unresponsive and limp early on October 3, Nola reports.
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