PROSECUTORS: DADUSEDDOLL TODEMONSTRATE HOWHEKILLED HISSON
Authorities say man used doll to show detectives how he nearly decapitated his son
A father charged with killing his 2- year- old son demonstrated on a doll how he slashed the boy’s throat during an interview with detectives, Cook County prosecutors said at the Little Village man’s bond hearing on Friday.
Rolando Ortiz, 37, tried to kill himself after he stabbed Mateo Garcia Aguayo to death Wednesday afternoon in their secondfloor apartment in the 2700 block of South Avers, police said.
After the murder, Ortiz called his sisterinlaw and told her his son “was with God and that he killed his son,” authorities said.
JudgeMary Marubio ordered Ortiz held without bail, adding that Mateo’s death showed “heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty.”
Ortiz was home with his son after completing an overnight shift in a factory where he did maintenance work, Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said. Ortiz “grew frustrated” when he couldn’t fall asleep because the 2- year- oldwas running around the house and jumping on Ortiz as he lay in bed.
“The defendant pinned the child on the floor so that the child could not move,” Santini said. “As he held the child down, the defendant reached over and grabbed a large kitchen knife from a nearby table. The defendant then held his son down with one hand and used the knife in the other hand to saw across the child’s throat multiple times, killing the 2- year- old.”
Mateo’s spinal cord was severed, Santini said.
Ortiz putMateo’sbody in a garbage bag, wiped the blood off the kitchen floor with some clothes and put those clothes in the same garbage bag, Santini added.
“He intended to dispose of the bag in the garbage,” Santini said.
Ortiz— who appeared in court wearing a blue medical jumpsuit — was arrested in south suburban Kankakee after police tracked his cellphone, Santini said.
Mateo would have turned 3 inMarch, Santini said.
Ortiz and his wife work opposite shifts in the same factory, with Ortiz working the night shift and his wife on the day shift, Santini said. They have three children together, including Mateo. The other two children were at school while Ortiz was watching Mateo.
Ortiz, who was born inMexico but has lived in Chicago for about 14 years, has worked at the factory for six years, his public defender said.
Ortiz called his wife after slashing the boy’s throat but couldn’t get through to her, so he called his sister- in- law and confessed to the killing, Chicago Police Area Central Detectives Cmdr. Brendan Deenihan said Thursday.
The sister- in- law then called family members who lived one floor below Ortiz. They went upstairs and found the child in the garbage bag and called police, according to Deenihan.
After he was brought back to Chicago on Wednesday, Ortiz, who has no prior arrests, confessed to the killing in police custody, Deenihan said.