Cops Discover Horrific Secret Hidden in Baby's Throat

Oh, can y'all please help us? He came brave.

I know something was in his mouth.

Boom.

I'm like, babe, he choking. He choking.

He choking.

What is this?

This text was in his head.

I tried.

There was nothing I could do.

On June 25, 2022, in Cleveland, Ohio, a chaotic 911 call summons paramedics to the home of an unresponsive 13-week-old infant. But when a troubling discovery is made, investigators begin to question the circumstances, raising the unsettling possibility that what happened may have been no accident.

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The following is based on official police records, and the footage has never been seen before. At 7.37 a.m., emergency dispatchers answer a frantic plea for help.

Okay, excuse me, sir. What's the address of the emergency? Okay,

sorry.

Can you please hurry? Okay, tell me tell me exactly what happened. I don't know your number. Okay, hello, hello, hello. Hello, can someone tell me what happened?

Oh, he done ran out of money.

Hello?

He gone crazy, I'm sure as hell.

Hello? He got brave, he got brave. What the fuck do you mean what happened?

He's not, he's not!

Okay, can I speak to one person? Can I speak to one person? A woman takes control of the call, finally getting vital information to the dispatcher. His father bangs on our door and his son stops breathing.

Okay, okay, can you just stand on the phone so I can talk to one person so I can get this help started? Yes. Are you with the patient now? Yes. And how old is this? Ma'am, ma'am.

Three months.

The dispatcher assures her that help is on the way, but with precious seconds slipping by, getting aid to the baby before paramedics arrive is critical.

Okay, listen, ma'am, I'm gonna tell you how to get mouth-to-mouth. Okay, go. I'm ready, come on.

Come on. Okay, now completely cover the baby's mouth. And nose. His mouth and nose with your mouth. Then I want you to blow two puffs of air into his lungs, about one second each. Just enough to make the chest rise with each breath, okay? Phew.

Now, did you feel the air going in and out?

Yes.

At 7.46 a.m., paramedics finally reach the scene, nine minutes after the call began. The 13-week-old baby is rushed to the MetroHealth Hospital, but it's too late. The tragedy becomes far more disturbing when an alarming discovery is made

during life-saving efforts, leading to an urgent call to police.

Hi, Janice, Social Work MetroHealth Medical Center. I'm calling to notify requesting police homicide probably for a baby death. EMS may have already called, but just in case, I need to make sure that it was called in.

A quick check of her records finds no earlier notification to police.

Why didn't they call us? It's a 13-week-old. I'll be honest with you, I don't know the address. I wonder why did EMS pick the baby up? Yeah. Now will you guys notify homicide? You know what? Are we calling this a violent death? No, well, we don't know, undetermined.

The heartbreaking screams of the infant's parents, 18-year-old Travion Hughes Sr. and 18-year-old Asiana McEwen can be heard in the background of the call.

Oh, and they don't know how it happened. can be heard in the background of the call. -...what the... Oh. And they don't know how it happened. Undetermined. I mean, we have speculation, but I'm gonna say undetermined. Okay. We'll get a car out there. Okay.

Probably sooner than later. They're gone. They're who? They're going... They're going what? They're going crazy over here. They're who? They're gone, they're gone crazy over here.

Who's there?

Is it mom, dad?

Cleveland police respond urgently and make their way to the nurses station where hospital staff reveal the cause of their alarm and the reason homicide detectives have been requested.

What is this?

This was in his chair.

Okay.

You guys suspect alcohol or anything?

What is that? What is that?

A baby wipe.

A baby wipe?

Yeah.

Three month old girl.

Walking around with a baby wipe.

You know?

Yeah.

Does that have an orange thing?

What?

A baby wipe?

You think that it's suspicious that, I guess,

they did suffocate the baby white person.

Yeah.

That's what I think.

So they have it over there.

I do think that it's...

Just listening to the parents...

Devastated one.

The parents are actually going crazy here.

Yeah. Yeah, right. That's a Metro PD panel, isn't it? Yeah. Devastated. My parents are actually going through here.

That's Metro PD coming along.

How the blood-stained baby wipe became lodged in the infant's throat is now a question homicide detectives must work to answer. They meet with the infant's parents, as well as his brother, Trevier, and his brother's girlfriend, Cassandra,

the woman who performed CPR during the 911 call.

Hi, guys.

I'm Detective Loomis. a woman who performed CPR during the 911 call. Hi guys. Hello. Hi.

Hi.

Hello.

I'm Detective Loomis.

Dad?

Yes.

So sorry for your loss, folks, honestly. Who was at home at the time?

All of you guys?

Yeah, I was at work.

You were at work?

Okay. Investigators meet with Trevion and Deciana separately in an effort to understand more about what happened with their son this morning.

So when you left for work this morning,

was the baby sleeping?

No, he was up.

He was up?

Mm-hmm.

I woke up and then I checked on him. Just like I do every morning, I wake up and check on him because he sleeps right next to me in his bassinet. So I look on him.

He was in the bassinet next to you?

Okay. He was up just staring. So I picked him up and I was just holding him, kissing him, and then I had put him down and started getting ready for work.

After leaving for work, Tra'Bion was left to care for the baby. Not long after she left, the infant began to cry. When he was crying, I made him a bottle

and he'll choke himself, like he greedy. And he'll choke, you feel me?

Good eater.

So I'll be pulling it out of his mouth, give him a, like pick him up, burp him, sit him back down, let him drink again. I keep burping him cause he'll keep going, he's premature. So I always did it constantly for him. And I set the little wipe under his neck because when it's dripping down,

we're gonna have milk smells.

What time did he call and say the baby was choking?

I was already on the phone, before the baby was choking and everything, I was already on the phone with him. It was like around, it was around seven. I don't know the precise time because I'm a DSP. I take care of older people with disabilities. So I was taking care of him, but I had my air pod in.

So I was listening to him. We was talking and everything. He was like, okay, I'm finna step out the room real quick. Went to go step out the room. Then it got quiet, I didn't hear nothing. Then he came back in the room and was like,

the baby choking, the baby choking. I know something was in his mouth. Boom. I'm trying to go down deep in it. I'm like, babe, he choking, he choking, he choking. So I'm trying to get this out of his mouth. I'm constantly doing it, but it's not working. So I'm overly panicking.

He then explains that when his efforts to remove the obstruction weren't working,

he ran to get help from Trevier and Cassandra. My big brother grabbed a brush to the kitchen, set him down on a countertop in the kitchen. Doing this, do you feel me? We see nothing, what we doing is working. So we called the ambulance.

Who calls 911?

His lady, his girl, my sister.

I call her.

Yeah, she called in the ambulance, telling him to rush here, like, please hurry up. Please, can y'all hurry, rush, please, can you feel me? Then y'all was taking like over 20, 30 minutes, so we just waited, it's still sitting there,

and he's not, he's constantly, uh, you feel me, like getting this little move, and I see it's not in his throat no more. It felt like it was lodged right here. night to get it out, he closing his mouth. He don't want me in his life. You feel me? Like, he don't want me in his mouth. He closing it. You feel me? And that's what's made me hard for me to go in there because my hands are so thick.

But you can feel it in there. You just couldn't get a grab on it.

Yeah, I could just get on it. How did he choke? And then he was like, he was wiping him down, the milk and stuff off him. He sat the napkin, the white next to him and walked out the room. And when he came back, the white was inside the baby's throat. He said he was trying to pull it out, but he couldn't.

It was his hand was too big.

Back at the house, officers monitor the property, which has now been secured as a crime scene. Investigators arrive on site and begin discussing the details of the case.

Once we got there, the nurses and the doctors showed, did you see the projectile?

The one up here, the little,

maybe like it was in its throat.

Yeah.

Yeah, how does a three month old do that?

Yeah.

That doesn't make sense.

It's a pretty big one.

When they learn Cassandra's two children also live in the home, some officers begin to speculate, unconvinced that what happened was merely an accident.

Something happened.

There.

I think it grabbed that thing itself

and shot it down its throat.

You okay about at the kids?

What's that?

Do you think they were mad at the kids?

I don't know.

Maybe the kid was crying, and the kid just,

the mom was being a bitch.

She wasn't going and super, super, super, super childish.

And the kid just was like, I can't see it,

so I'm just going shut it out, you know?

I don't know, the kid's still there,

I'm just gonna shut the hell out of it.

However, Cassandra tells investigators her two children weren't home, and the only child in the house was the three-month-old, who had been sleeping in a bassinet next to his mother until she left for work, investigators pose a critical question to the parents. Has your baby picked stuff up before and tried to eat it?

Yeah, he, okay, he's an advanced baby. He knows how to hold his own bottle. Like he, when you try to pull a bottle away from him, he like reaches to grab it back. He'll pick it back up and put it back in his mouth.

Okay. Has he ever put anything else in his mouth besides the bottle? Anything he grabs. You're saying that he's picked up stuff and put stuff in his mouth before? Do you remember anything specific he's ever put in his mouth besides the bottle? Like he's ever picked something up? Candy, cookies, anything. Like he'll grab it and put it in his mouth. No matter what it is,, he put it in his mouth. I don't mind explaining, like, a sock, he'll do anything.

Literally anything he see, he'll make a fool of it.

He'll even suck on your...

He can reach, he'll grab it and try to...

Yeah, he can do this pretty well.

He can reach around and he can grab it.

And he'll even suck on you, like,

no, like, that think it's food. Yeah. Paramedics quickly arrived after the 911 call was placed. But once on scene, they said they were not notified that the 13-week-old boy had an obstruction in his throat by anyone at the scene, including Travion, his brother, Travier, or Cassandra.

Did you tell them that thing went down his throat?

Yeah, they knew about all that. They knew, you know but I'm talking about my brother and sister, they knew too. And they was trying to help.

Did they tell him that on the phone?

Uh-uh, I don't know. Like, sir, the man, when this was going on, I was-

Yeah, I mean, we'll get a chance.

I was so pissed, he's raging, crying, jumping everywhere.

Panicking. and insists the infant was still breathing when paramedics arrived. They told me he was able to get out,

like he was still moving is what I'm saying.

Yeah, but you can move,

you still have some air in your body, like oxygen in your blood a little bit. So it could have been like a serious area.

So I'm gonna get him out of there?

No.

They'll contact you

when the funeral home can come pick him up.

The medical examiner's office would later determine the infant's cause of death to be asphyxia by choking. Doubt still lingers over how it got in the infant's mouth, as well as why paramedics weren't informed of the obstruction. This brings both Cassandra and Trevion

back for an interrogation, where investigators seek to find the truth.

When he came to the door, what did he say to you?

He said that the baby's choking, help, help.

Did he say what he was choking on?

A wipe.

Did he actually tell you that at that point in time?

Yes, he said that he was choking on a wipe. But we didn't see anything.

We didn't see the way I'm looking. Like my biggest thing was call 911. I know we needed to start compression.

Sure.

His mouth was so small so that I, as I'm on the phone 911, I took the side of my bed, she said, I'm doing CPR, the compressions and everything.

And his, like he, it seemed like he, you know, I thought was getting air and keep going because he didn't.

And then there was nothing. The question came up during the 911 call as the dispatcher attempted to guide her through performing CPR.

Okay, kneel next to the baby and look in his mouth for food or vomit.

Is there anything in his mouth?

No.

At the house when we talked, you didn't mention the word baby wipe to me at all.

Yes I did.

Well, yeah, you didn't.

It was recorded.

Okay. On the 911 call, nobody mentioned baby white. When the EMTs got there, nobody mentioned baby white.

However, at the very start of the 911 call, a male's voice can be heard shouting that something was in the infant's mouth.

EMS, what's the address of the emergency?

How the f*** did he get it on the phone? How did he get it on his phone? How did he get it on his mouth? Come on!

Still, paramedics said they were never informed when they arrived.

He told me a thousand times that he was choking on a baby bite.

He told you?

Yes.

How come no one told 911 that?

So it was never said on the 911, like, I want to hear it because I know that they were screaming that he was choking on a baby wipe.

I mentioned it to the EMT. Don't you think when a paramedic gets there that someone should say he has a baby wipe and does not know?

Do you understand if you would have been there and all the f***ing screaming going on? I literally was trying to get to the f***ing baby. So if you heard, I'm like, come question. Tell me. I tried to save that baby. there's nothing I could do.

There's nothing you could have done. There's nothing. There's nothing anyone could have done.

When investigators bring up something she said back at the crime scene, it leads to frustration from Cassandra.

What was the blood that you talked about

saying, or what was the blood at?

I didn't see any blood.

I never said that. You know what, no I did not. During their initial walkthrough of the crime scene, Cassandra mentioned what she was told by Travion.

He said that he changed his diaper, was washing, like wiped him up and everything, and that he had just like a little scratch or something on his neck from cutting himself and then one up like on the side of his mouth. And he said he went to like wipe up just the blood and everything and

He said walk away just for a couple of seconds and This is the outcome of that Never said I saw. You said you saw him wiping blood off. No, I didn't say I saw I said he stopped Don't do that because in a second he's come on. No, you might have said that. Okay, okay. That's what you he. Stop, don't do that, because in a second, he's come on. No.

Okay, okay.

That's what you said.

Okay, don't do that.

He told me. Why is it like this, man?

Because I'm telling you,

this is literally the most,

a long time, and I feel like you keep trying

to tell me what I'm saying,

and I tell you what I'm saying. In the midst of getting nowhere with Cassandra, investigators wrap up the interview, hoping Travion might provide the clarity she didn't. He's left alone for a few moments, where he entertains himself while waiting for investigators.

It's a bad we do. It's a bad we do. It's a bad we do.

I'm sure the camera's still in there.

Yes, it is. Detectives sit down with Travion once again, but his interview begins with less cooperation than the first and quickly hits a wall.

I know it sucks, but we got to figure out what happened here. We got a bunch of questions, okay? So, but before we ask the questions, we're gonna give you the random ones, okay?

I know, but I'm not speaking without my lawyer.

Okay.

Well, that's fine. Then we're gonna place you under arrest for murder of the baby. What? Based on the evidence that we have.

This ain't no evidence.

Okay.

Stand up and put your hands behind your back.

Why would I get arrested, bro?

Murder?

I'm stuffing the red, bro. I'm not getting arrested. I'm not stuffing the red dot.

Why are you stuffing the red dot, bro? What? What?

I'm not getting arrested.

We're giving you an opportunity to explain how that red dot got there. What? But you don't want to do that, so you're just going to have to shoot. We've talked to doctors. We've talked to the medical examiner.

We've talked to the medical examiner, we talked to the steward.

We've done everything, yes.

We've done everything, yes. I understand everything you're saying, yes.

And every single one of those people tell us that there's no way that a 13-week-old

baby picked up a man, balded up, and put it in his mouth.

I know he ain't bald.

We're not asking any questions.

Just as the detective makes his exit, his passing comment strikes a nerve.

Good luck. Alright, good luck.

So, uh, officer.

What? Come here. Come here. Come sit. Come.

Now, what you saying good luck for?

I said good luck.

With your, with your defense, with your case.

Okay. Okay. Alright? And I mean that. I hope your defense, with your case. Okay.

Okay.

All right?

And I mean that.

I hope that you can pull it off.

Pull what off, Officer?

Like it's the last, Officer?

Getting out of these charges.

What you saying, pulling it off like it's the last, Officer?

You said very, very clearly that you tried to pull that rag out of that baby's mouth.

That old guy, no, when I went in the room, my baby mama was on the phone the whole time.

I wanna talk to you.

Once the detective leaves, Trevion waits on his own with nothing but his thoughts.

Boy, what the f***? Do I look like some sick individual to any of y'all? It's okay, I bet you I'm gonna win this s***. Watch this. Getting justice for my son. Arrested an innocent boy. Murder.

What?

Sick white people. Well, I swear to God I hate racist people. Why they so racist?

If I was white, I wouldn't be so cruel. What? What the?

Officers return and arrest 18-year-old Travion Hugh Sr., who was later charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and two counts of endangering children. He entered a plea of not guilty on July 28, 2022, choosing to present his defense at trial. According to news reports, while awaiting trial, Travion and Asiana welcomed another

child whose young voice can be heard in a call between the two parents from jail. my baby. Oh my God. Baby, let her hit you. What the hell?

Let her hit me? Let her hit you?

I am.

She can hit me all the f*** she want to hit.

Does she? Let you stay away from me?

My baby can slap me if she wants to. Bye-bye, baby.

During Travion's trial,

which began on May 22nd, 2024, Asiana testified that she was on FaceTime with Travion at the time of the incident and that she saw him pick up the baby and run out of the room after screaming that he was choking. Tests of the baby wipe revealed the infant's DNA was present, but there was no trace of Travion's. However, while both parents told investigators the infant would regularly grab things and put them in his mouth, a forensic pathologist with the Cuyahoga

County Medical Examiner's Office testified that a 13-week-old doesn't have the dexterity and ability to force a wipe to the back of their throat, arguing it had to have been placed there intentionally. Ultimately, the jury found Travion guilty. The baby's mother defended Travion during a court hearing, telling the judge he was making a mistake. Travion was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

An appeal was later filed, arguing that there wasn't enough evidence to prove Travion forced a baby wipe down his son's throat. The appeals court rejected the claims and upheld his conviction. If you'd like to see select new videos early

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