Lucas Michael Dillon12th District Attorney General Mike Taylor said Wednesday that an autopsy of a 5-year-old boy found dead in Marion County, Tenn., last weekend revealed that the cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head.
Taylor said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is treating the death of Lucas Michael Dillon as a homicide investigation.
He said the TBI has been conducting interviews with everyone who had access to the boy, including the boy’s father and the father’s fiancee, who made the 911 call, and said the case is still very much in the investigative stage.
The boy was found “severely injured” at a Whitwell home Saturday.
TBI spokesman Josh DeVine said that anyone with information about the case should call 1-800-TBI-FIND.