http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/county_25825___article.html/elwood_white.htmlWill County Sheriff Paul Kaupas, Elwood Police Chief David Albert and Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow issued a news release Friday announcing the first-degree murder charge against Lee K. Ponshe, 25, of Elwood. Will County lies just south of Chicago.
Albert said Ponshe is charged in the beating death of Halli R. Burton, the 18-month old daughter of Jessi Dunlap and Josh Burton of White Hall.
The child and her mother had lived in White Hall up until Monday, when the woman and her infant daughter moved in with Ponshe after Dunlap struck up a relationship with him over the Internet.
At 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, the Elwood Fire Department responded to a call at the Ponshe residence regarding an unresponsive child.
Paramedics notified police and immediately transferred the infant to Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, where she was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m.
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Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil's office performed an autopsy on the 18-month-old child Thursday. The preliminary findings were that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. Toxicology reports are pending.
Elwood police, Will County crime scene investigators and Will County detectives executed a search warrant for the suspect's residence Thursday evening. Ponshe was arrested Thursday night after the State's Attorney's Office approved a charge of first-degree murder.
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