Haltom City police, CPS investigating death of toddler

Officials with state Child Protective Services and police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was rushed to a Dallas hospital with injuries and died four days later.

Lyfe Maleek “Gabe” Flores died Monday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The Dallas County medical examiner’s office had not made a ruling on Lyfe’s death as of Thursday.

No one has been arrested in the case, police said Thursday, but CPS officials received a report of the child’s death, and an investigation is underway, CPS spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said in a Thursday email.

“His sibling, a 5-month-old girl, is currently in foster care,” Gonzales said.

Police responded to a 911 call about 11:48 p.m. March 31 in the 2100 block of Haltom Road. Lyfe had been staying with relatives at a home at that location, police Cpl. Ray Beshirs said Thursday.

He said the boy was “obviously injured.”

Beshirs said there hadn’t been a fire.

The toddler was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, and then moved to Parkland in Dallas, where he died Monday.

Gonzales of CPS said the agency had contact with the child and his family before this week, but she provided no details.

Lyfe’s funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Rosser Funeral Home, 1664 W. Henderson St., in Cleburne. Burial will be at Grange Hall Cemetery in Rio Vista.

At the family’s request, people attending should wear blue in observance of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Staff writer Ryan Osborne contributed to this report.

This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 11:12 AM with the headline "Haltom City police, CPS investigating death of toddler."