EAGLE POINT, Ore. – Police arrested a man in connection with the death of a 2-year-old Eagle Point girl.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s office said on August 5, the Eagle Point Police Department was dispatched to a mobile home park at 233 South Shasta Avenue after someone called 911 to report a child who was not breathing.
When first responders with Fire District 3 arrived at the scene, 2-year-old Alivia Rose Allen was unresponsive. She was taken to the hospital where she later died.
A woman who claimed to be the girl’s aunt posted on Facebook saying her niece was “in heaven now.” Another woman claimed to be her mother commented on the post saying, “My baby will get her justice.”
According to a fundraiser that was shared on the supposed aunt’s Facebook page, the girl’s mother came home and her daughter wouldn’t wake up from sleeping.
Investigators later said 25-year-old Russel Brian Darrell Larsen was babysitting Alivia at the time of her death. He was reportedly in a relationship with the 2-year-old’s mother and had recently moved into the home.
An autopsy was performed on Alivia on August 7, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said. That’s when medical examiners determined the death occurred from blunt-force trauma. It was ruled a homicide.
On August 15, Larsen was arrested and lodged in the Jackson County Jail for manslaughter, assault and criminal mistreatment.
Anyone with further information about this case is asked to call the sheriff’s office.
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