Kansas City, Mo. — His name was Tru King; he was only 11 months old when he died.
“He loved his brothers. Oh God, he loved his brothers. Like a lot,” Tru’s mother, Krishawn Huggins, said.
It makes sense. He was born on Valentine’s Day.
“That’s my love baby,” Huggins said.
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“If I had a bad day at school I would just come home and hold him to make myself happier,” one of Tru’s older brothers, Tyaun, said.
But just a week before his first birthday, something terrible happened.
“He was supposed to come home that day. He was with his dad,” Huggins told FOX4.
Huggins said she let Tru stay with his father for a few days. The father’s girlfriend was also there, according to Huggins.
“He hadn’t seen the baby in a month and a half, maybe two months,” she said. “But he was doing better; he got an apartment. So, I let the baby go.
“I’ll never forget that day. I never should’ve let him go.”
Then she got a phone call from Tru’s father.
Huggins said he told her that Tru was “unresponsive.” She said he told her “a bunch of different stories” about what had happened.
With Tru in the hospital, his mother rushed to be by her son’s side.
When she arrived, her son was already dead. From there, things only got worse.
“I really don’t have any closure,” she said.
That’s because she hasn’t been able to get any answers. Neither the hospital, nor the Kansas City Police Department, would give her a cause of death. Weeks rolled by.
“When I call and try to get answers, it’s like, ‘well we’re still investigating.'”
Then months went by. She got the same response: we’re still investigating; we’ll give you a call when we find out anything.
But that call never came. Instead, months later, a death certificate arrived.
The certificate said the 11-month-old’s cause of death was from two types of fentanyl and doxylamine – a drug commonly used for allergies or as a sleep aid – toxicity.
“When I got this and knew for sure how my baby passed away, [I wanted] justice. They need to be charged with the murder of this baby,” Huggins told FOX4.
Now, it’s been almost six months – equal to half of Tru’s short life.
His family still grieves his death and aches for justice, which is why they reached out to the FOX4 Problem Solvers to share their story.
“What are you doing with fentanyl? Why would you have that in a house with kids?” Huggins said.
FOX4 Problem Solvers reached out to the Kansas City Police Department, which sent us an almost fully redacted incident report—and stated the investigation is ongoing.
KCPD provided no further update to the case.
This story airs tonight on FOX4 News at 9.
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