A 52-year-old man from Beetham Gar­dens has been charged with the mur­der of a tod­dler who died from in­juries sus­tained while in his care back in 2023.

Mar­vin Rugette, al­so known as Crush­er, was for­mal­ly charged with the of­fence fol­low­ing ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

The charge aris­es out of the death of two-year-old An­ge­lo Far­rell, who was al­leged­ly beat­en while un­der Rugette’s su­per­vi­sion on No­vem­ber 18, 2023.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cat­ed that the child’s god­moth­er took him to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mount Hope, in an un­re­spon­sive state. She told doc­tors and po­lice that she had left An­ge­lo in the care of Rugette, the child’s god­fa­ther, at his home the day be­fore.

Rugette al­leged­ly told her that An­ge­lo had fall­en while jump­ing be­tween a bed and a chair. How­ev­er, doc­tors found that the boy’s in­juries were in­con­sis­tent with a fall. An­ge­lo re­mained un­con­scious un­til he was placed on ter­mi­nal ex­tu­ba­tion and died five days lat­er, on No­vem­ber 23.

A post-mortem per­formed by a pathol­o­gist at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre con­clud­ed that the child died from mul­ti­ple blunt force in­juries to the head and face. The pathol­o­gist said the in­juries were not caused by a fall but were con­sis­tent with an as­sault.

Med­ical re­ports from pae­di­atric doc­tors at the hos­pi­tal sup­port­ed the pathol­o­gist’s find­ings.

On Thurs­day, May 22, 2025, of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau’s In­tel­li­gence Unit ar­rest­ed Rugette. He was de­tained at the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion un­til he was charged on Mon­day.

Rugette re­mains in cus­tody.