The St. Joseph Police Department is investigating the cause of death of an infant early Monday morning.
Commander Eric Protzman said police responded to a call of a baby not breathing a little after 4 a.m. at the Motel 6 on Frederick.
Baby boy was transported to Mosaic Life Care and pronounced deceased.
“Just a couple of months old,” Protzman said. “The child was born in May.”
An autopsy to determine the cause of death is being preformed.
Protzman said there is nothing to indicate foul play but it is suspicious.
“We treat everything as suspicious until we know otherwise,” Protzman said.
It’s the second infant death in a week.
As we previously reported, last Monday officers responded to a northend residence to investigate the death of an eleven-day-old baby boy.
Protzman said authorities are still awaiting autopsy results in that case as well.
“Generally a week, a week and a half before we get something back,” Protzman said.