Funeral for 4-year-old boy scheduled for Tuesday

A funeral service for 4-year-old Malachi Lawson will be held Tuesday at Mount Zion Apostolic Faith Church, a family member said Saturday. The child — whose mother and her wife have been charged in his death — will be buried in a Woodlawn cemetery. The service will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the church at 3505 N. Rogers Ave. near Gwynn Oak. Interment will follow immediately at Woodlawn Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum, at 2130 Woodlawn Drive. Police have charged Malachi’s mother, Alicia Lawson, and her spouse, Shatika Lawson, with involuntary manslaughter, child abuse, assault, reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence and giving false statements. According to charging documents, Malachi was burned in a bath, but neither Alicia Lawson nor Shatika Lawson took him to get treatment out of fear he would be taken away from them. The Charm City East Moose Lodge 70 donated Malachi’s burial plot. Beverly D. Cromartie Funeral Service offered embalming services and donated a casket. Other donations were made by the cemetery and a local printer.