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.