By David Lohr
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Levares died on Sept. 29. According to police, the boy's brother, Demetrius Key, 13, told them he beat his brother in the head with a piece of metal and then punched, kicked, and choked him because the younger boy ate a dessert he was not allowed to have. At the time of the incident, Demetrius was babysitting his brother and half a dozen other children.
"Demetrius offered that Levares upset him by eating a dessert that [he] was not to have eaten," Detective Appling Wells wrote in the arrest affidavit. "He also advised Levares upset him by picking a scab and causing it to bleed. Demetrius said he feared Levares would blame both circumstances on him and tell his mother he had struck him and eaten the dessert."
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| Lavares Key |
Levares was later pronounced dead at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Detectives then charged Demetrius with premeditated murder, and he was remanded to the Osceola County Juvenile Detention Center.
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| Tangela Key |
In October, detectives arrested Tangela Key, a single mother of seven children who is pregnant, and charged her with aggravated child neglect. Detectives allege Key was aware Demetrius had caused bodily injury to Levares in the past and that she failed to take action to prevent future abuse.
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