Name: Hunter Drew.
Died: October 20, 2022.
Age at death: 3.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Mount Auburn, Illinois, USA.
Disability: Developmental delay, chronic illness.
Details:
Hunter had gotten into a scuffle with a sibling when his father’s girlfriend grabbed him, threw him so that his head hit a hard object, and then drove him around in her car for three hours while he died of a head injury.
Hunter loved motorcycles, trains, race cars, and big loud trucks.
Case Status:
Ashley N. Bottoms (Father’s girlfriend), convicted of involuntary manslaughter, sentenced to 11 years.
Sources:
Southern Illinois woman sentenced to prison for 3-year-old stepson’s brain bleed death
Did custody change cause Hunter’s death?
Charges filed in death of 3-year-old
Family and friends gather for Hunter Drew’s visitation
The short life of a 3-year-old boy taken too soon
DCFS facilitates 3-year-old downstate boy’s move in with his father, and now the boy is dead