Did Tyson Chamberlain Kill Easton Lee?
March 28, 2008 by impqueen


PhoenixPhoenix reviews
, AZ — It sure looks that way. On Friday night, MarchMarch reviews
21, Tyson Chamberlain and his girlfriend Chalice Rutherford were taking care of eight-month-old Easton Lee while his mother, Heather Kern, was out for the night. Kern, Chamberlain and Rutherford all lived in the same north Phoenix home. According to Chamberlain and Rutherford, they put baby Easton to bed about 10:00 p.m., but he woke up vomiting a few hours later. By 3:00 a.m. on SaturdaySaturday reviews
, March 22, Easton Matthew Lee was dead.
Easton Matthew Lee was born on June 21, 2007, the son of Heather Kern and Robert Lee. His extended family keeps in touch via MyspaceMySpace
, so there are pictures of baby Easton and his pretty blonde mother all over the internet. Easton appears to have been a very tiny newborn who grew quickly into an average-sized, smiling baby in a large, supportive family.
Tyson Chamberlain, 30, and Chalice Rutherford, 24, are parents themselves. Their Myspaces show lots of pictures of their toddler daughter Keiarra and more than one lingerie shot of Chalice. A civil suit for back rent filed last SeptemberSeptember reviews
shows why they may have needed a roommate. And while Chalice seems to have a number of friends, Tyson Chamberlain has only a few.
Chamberlain and Rutherford called 911 about 3:00 a.m. last Saturday morning to report that Easton wasn’t breathing. Chamberlain’s story was that Easton had somehow slid under the water during his bath, and any bruises must have come from the CPR that Chamberlain performed, trying to revive the infant. The problem with that story became clear on autopsy. Easton Lee had blunt force trauma to both the head and the abdomen, resulting in skull fractures and a damaged colon. He also had a number of bruises and abrasions. His hair had been ripped out of his scalp.
Then there’s the picture of little Easton taken on March 14, the week before his death. I found it on a relative’s Myspace. In it, Easton is being held by an aunt – and has clear injuries to his face:

Is that normal “baby fall-down” bruising? Possibly. But the timing is frightening. How often did Chamberlain and Rutherford babysit? How did the bruised eye and nose abrasions happen? Maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe last weekend wasn’t the first time Easton Lee got hit.
According to their Myspaces, Robert Lee’s family believes that Easton was murdered. I’m not finding much on Heather Kern or Robert Lee themselves (her Myspace is set to private), but they weren’t home when Easton died. That pretty much leaves Tyson Chamberlain and Chalice Rutherford, and Chalice hasn’t been charged.
Tyson Chamberlain was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder and child abuse. He is being held in custody in Phoenix, and bail has not yet been set.






















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