Arrest Made In Infant Injury Case

TYLER � An arrest has been made in a Smith County infant injury case. On April 24, shortly after 10:30pm, Jarrod Deray Phillips, 33, of Tyler, the father of the injured infant, was booked in to the Smith County Jail on an outstanding charge of possession of marijuana. On April 25, representatives of Children�s Medical Center in Dallas told Smith County Sheriff�s Office Detective John Shoemaker that the injuries the infant sustained were not consistent with the story provided by Phillips. Upon further investigation and an interview with Phillips, he was charged with injury to a child. Smith County authorities report Judge Christi Kennedy of the 114th District Court set Phillips� bond at $750,000. He remains in the Smith County Jail.

On April 24 around 4:30 that afternoon, Smith County deputies along with ETMC paramedics and members of the Jackson VFD were dispatched to a residence in the 16000 block of Farm Road 2767 in reference to an unresponsive 6- month-old infant. The child was transported by ambulance to Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, and was then flown to Children�s Medical Center in Dallas to receive treatment. Family members told deputies that the child fell from a bed and received an injury to the head.