UPDATE: Elis Nelson OrtizNieves, 25, from Gaines Township, has been charged with homicide/felony murder, 1st degree  child abuse and being a habitual offender by the Kent County Prosecutor's Office

in the  death of four-year-old Giovanni Mejias.

Original story: The Kent County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a four-year-old Gaines Township child. Deputies, and emergency personnel, were dispatched to 277 North Green Meadow Street S.E. Tuesday at 10:45 a.m.  on a report of a child not breathing. The child’s  pulse was restored and he was transported to Helen Devos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids where he later died.

The death is currently under investigation.