Buckeye Police Charge Father With Killing 3-Month Old Son

BUCKEYE, AZ – It was June 13, 2017 when the Buckeye Police Department got a call from Phoenix Children's Hospital. Doctors there had pronounced a 3-month-old boy dead.

The boy had arrived from the emergency room at Buckeye Abrazo where his father had brought him, saying that he had found the boy unresponsive on the bed.

The father, 24-year-old John Centano was arrested this week and charged with second-degree murder.

Police say that their investigation revealed that the infant had died from head trauma and it was ruled a homicide. They determined that while Centano had claimed that he had left the infant for just a moment while he grabbed some shower items out of the bathroom, no items had actually been removed.

Centano, who is currently on active duty with the Air Force, was booked into Maricopa County Jail and is charged with murder and child abuse.

Photo via Buckeye Police Department.