A California boy was hospitalized late Tuesday after a family friend found him in a bathtub with his throat slit at a Lancaster home.
The 3-year-old boy was suffering a “laceration to the upper body” when police arrived at the house on the 43400 block of 57th Street.
The boy died shortly after arriving at a local hospital.
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A man, identified as the boyfriend of the toddler’s mother, was also found suffering an unspecified medical emergency.
He was hospitalized in stable condition. No arrests were immediately made but the incident was deemed a homicide.
Officers found three older siblings - aged 9, 11, and 14 and brought them to the sheriff’s department.
