Rhasean Lowry
Justin Dale Bradley
Hamilton County authorities are investigating the death of Dakota Arndt, 3, who died Friday.Rhasean Lowry told police the injuries to his girlfriend’s daughter were an accident.
He said 3-year-old Tatiana Emerson slipped on the steps of the Econo Lodge on Bonny Oaks Drive on the morning of Aug. 26. He said she banged her head on the handrail and fell to the bottom of the stairs. He said he carried her to their motel room, saw the blood seeping from her mouth and immediately drove her to the hospital.
On the way there, he said, she complained over and over that her head hurt. Eventually she lost consciousness.
A day later, doctors pronounced Tatiana dead.
Police say they don’t believe Lowry’s story, and they have charged the 34-year-old with criminal homicide and two counts of child abuse — once on account of Tatiana, once on account of her 5-year-old brother, who told investigators that Lowry beat him, according to an incident report. Lowry is scheduled to appear Tuesday before Hamilton County Sessions Court Judge Christine Sell.