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and fire rescue personnel alternately per-
formed CPR on the baby. The child was
rushed by ambulance to Citrus Memorial
Hospital. Because Tamarri was not breathing
on his own, he was airlifted to All Children’s
Hospital in St. Petersburg for further pediat-
ric care. At 3:30 p.m., Feb. 16, Tamarri was
pronounced dead.
Detectives interviewed the infant’s
biological parents, who do not reside togeth-
er, along with other caretakers, physicians
and hospital personnel.
When deputies located Weaver on
Saturday, he spoke with them about the voice
mail threats to harm himself and Tamarri’s
death.
Weaver’s arrest report listed details
of his interview: Sometime around Jan. 29
when caring for Tamarri, Weaver said he’d
grabbed him around the stomach area and
squeezed him, while shaking him “in a rough
and hard way,” the report stated. Weaver said
he knew he’d injured the child, because he
later saw bruising on Tamarri’s right side.
Weaver made several comments that he was
often rough when picking up the child out
of bed or putting him to bed. He said, when
burping the baby, he would squeeze the back
going in and out of sleep, and his heart was
of his neck very hard, while choking him with
beating very fast.
his other hand.
At that point, according to the report,
On Feb. 14, Weaver said his roomate
Weaver was scared and worried, because he
gave him the baby and a bottle, while he was
knew he’d harmed the child. Weaver said that
in his room, lying in bed. He said his room-
he should have called 911, but did not, due to
mate left for work, and he was home alone
concern about his actions. Weaver then took
with Tamarri. He fed Tamarri in bed, accord-
the baby into the bathroom and bathed him in
ing to the report, and afterward, burped him
the sink. During the bath, he said, he struck
- squeezing the back of his neck very hard,
the back of the baby’s head on the sink, and
while choking him. He told detectives he was
he saw an immediate effect. Weaver told
very rough with Tamarri during this time.
detectives that Tamarri was “very limp, go-
Weaver said Tamarri woke up cry-
ing in and out of consciousness,” the report
ing, and he removed him from the bed “in a
stated.
rough and forceful manner,” the report stat-
In a rough manner, Weaver said, he
ed. Weaver said he held the baby around the
placed Tamarri back on the bed, and he was
chest and armpit area - squeezing him hard
asleep. A short time later, he heard the baby
and shaking him. He then threw Tamarri onto
cough or make a noise, and when he entered
his waterbed, and he landed in the middle.
the bedroom, the baby was very pale. Weaver
Weaver said he then hit Tamarri, twice, with
said he panicked, because the baby was not
an open hand, on the right side of his head,
breathing, and he began slapping the baby on
and he saw an immediate effect on Tamarri.
the face. He told detectives he knew his ac-
He was not alert, he was very limp, he was
tions had caused Tamarri’s injuries and death.
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