MARTINSBURG, W.Va. —
There will be no criminal charges in connection to the September 28 death of a 2-year-old boy who died after he was bitten by a neighbor’s.
Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely says the death of Lamarkus Hicks was a horrible collision of circumstances.
“You have children who were outside playing, being supervised by adults,” Games-Neely says. “There was an assumption he was in one house and he wasn’t.”
Evidence suggests Hicks’s death was accidental and not a mauling case.
“That did not happen in this case.” Games-Neely said. “Although we don’t have a formal medical examiner’s report yet, everything that we’re getting appears to be accidental.”
Child neglect charges also will not be filed in the case.
The dog responsible for the bite was turned over to animal control and was scheduled to be euthanized yesterday.
Hicks was found unresponsive near the dog in the neighbor’s yard off Charles Town Road in Baker Heights southeast of Martinsburg.