New Bedford man charged with murder in alleged shaken baby death

By Globe Staff

Prosecutors filed a murder charge today against a man accused of shaking a 10-month-old boy to death in New Bedford in August.

Manuel Antonio Lopez, 28, will be arraigned today in New Bedford District Court, according to a release from the Bristol district attorney's office. He is accused of killing Josiah Pacheco, who died Aug. 14 at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence three days after Lopez called 911 because the baby was not breathing.

The child was diagnosed with diffuse brain edema and bilateral retinal hemorrhaging, which are both symptoms of shaken baby syndrome, according to the district attorney.

Lopez had been living with Josiah's mother. Before the baby died, Lopez pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and battery on a child and assault and battery of a household member.

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