M.E.'s Office Releases Cause, Manner Of Death In OKC Child Abuse Case

The State Medical Examiner's Office has ruled 3-year-old Larandon Nicols manner of death as a homicide. M.E. Spokesperson Cherokee Ballard reported that the cause of death was sepsis due to blunt force trauma.

Wednesday, November 17th 2010, 2:16 pm

By: News 9


Jennifer Pierce, News 9

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The State Medical Examiner's Office has ruled 3-year-old Larandon Nicols manner of death as a homicide and the cause of death as sepsis due to blunt force trauma.

"The pathologist in this case determined that sepsis caused this child's death due to multiple blunt force trauma," said M.E.'s Spokesperson Cherokee Ballard. "Sepsis is an infection that can set in when some kind of injury or wound is not treated."

And investigators said it could have been caused a number of ways. 

Larandon Nichols lived in a northwest Oklahoma City home with his adoptive mother, Alibra Nichols, and her boyfriend Donald Miller II.

According to a report issued this week by the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, Larandon weighed only 18 pounds on the day he died and was covered in cuts, scratches and marks.

Alibra admitted to abusing Larandon with flip-flops, belts, hangers, switches and a plastic bat, and a week before Larandon died, the 370 pound woman fell on top of him.

"I can't imagine a horrible death like this for this little boy," Ballard said.

Nichols and her boyfriend are charged with eight counts of child abuse and child neglect, but after the district attorney reviews the M.E.'s report, the pair could be facing murder charges.

Alibra and Miller are being held in the Oklahoma County jail both without bond.

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