Attorney Roderick Edmond, from left, joined by Treveon Isaiah Taylor, Sr., Jessica Ross and attorney Cory Lynch, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Atlanta, announcing a lawsuit against a doctor and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital south of Atlanta where Ross went on July 9 to have her son.

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The death ofan infant who was decapitated during deliveryhas been ruled a homicide.

On Tuesday, the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the July 10, 2023 incident involving newborn Treveon Isaiah Taylor, Jr. a homicide, the office said in a press release.

On July 9, Jessica Ross, 20, was rushed to Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Georgia after her water broke.

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14051570b) The entrance of the Southern Regional Medical Center hospital in Riverdale, Georgia, USA, 11 August 2023. A medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Clayton County, Georgia on behalf of expecting mother Jessica Ross alleges her baby was decapitated during delivery at Southern Regional Medical Center in July 2023. The complaint alleges the hospital, doctors and medical staff attempted to conceal the manner of death of the baby from Ross, her boyfriend, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr and their family. The Clayton County Medical Examiner and Clayton County Police are now investigating the death.

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“This caused immediate, profound emotional and mental anguish for [them]… emotional and mental anguish that they continue to experience and most probably will experience for the rest of their lives,” the 2023 complaint said, perWANF.

Attorney Cory Lynch, left, joined by Treveon Isaiah Taylor, Sr., Jessica Ross, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Atlanta, announcing a lawsuit against a doctor and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital south of Atlanta where Ross went on July 9 to have her son.

PEOPLE reached out to Lynch for comment following the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office’s homicide ruling on Monday, but did not immediately hear back.

Lynch and attorney Roderick E. Edmond, who both represent Ross and Taylor, are expected to hold a press conference on the case Wednesday.

It was Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home that informed the medical examiner and the family of the newborn’s decapitation, the ME’s office said.

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source: people.com