India, May 5 -- A 52-year-old man from Connecticut, has been charged with brutally killing his 12-year-old son with a baseball bat and attempting to murder his teenage daughter. According to a statement from Branford Police, shared on Facebook, officers responded to a distress call on Thursday, May 1, from a woman who believed Anthony Andrew Esposito Jr. had killed someone in his Hemlock Road home. By the time officers arrived, Esposito had already fled the scene in a silver Chrysler Pacifica.

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Police found the 12-year-old boy in the basement of the home with significant head trauma. He was pronounced dead at 4:10 pm. by paramedics, Pe...