An 18-year-old Phoenix, AZ man is accused of beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death. A Phoenix man brutally beat and bit his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death – and nearly did the same to her year-old sister, police said.<\/p>\n
Martwane Mackey<\/strong> admitted to authorities he assaulted both girls, but denies killing the elder one. The 18-year-old claims young Ty’Shea Austin<\/strong> suffered a “choking and respiratory incident” while he was watching the girl and her little sister, Zariah<\/strong>, police said.<\/p>\n His girlfriend, Qnique Thues<\/strong>, was at work at the time. The couple lived together.<\/p>\n Mackey<\/strong> said he did not immediately call 911 or take the child to the hospital, but instead struck and bit the toddler to revive her, authorities said in a police report.<\/p>\n Mackey<\/strong> eventually called 911 from a pay phone around 2 a.m. Saturday, police said. When cops arrived, they found him with the 3-year-old in his arms.<\/p>\n “He’s a monster, and people need to know he’s a monster,” Rhonda Brown<\/strong>, Ty’Shea<\/strong> and Zariah’s<\/strong> grandmother, told ABC 15 News. “I don’t think death is good enough for him, I think he needs to be beaten like he beat her.”<\/p>\n Mackey<\/strong> was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and child abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An 18-year-old Phoenix, AZ man is accused of beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death. A Phoenix man brutally beat and bit his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death – and nearly did the same to her year-old sister, police said. Martwane Mackey admitted to authorities he assaulted both girls, but denies killing the elder one. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}