Florida parents arrested after 7-week-old daughter died from ‘violent shaking’

Twisted Florida parents have been accused of “violently shaking” and bludgeoning their infant daughter to death — while investigators say they were playing Call of Duty as the baby lay unresponsive.

Gracie Jai Tellez, 20, and Robert Lee Ingram, 22, were arrested Aug. 7 in Jacksonville in connection with the death of their 7-week-old child, according to the US Marshals Service.

The baby was found cold, pale and unresponsive at the couple’s Hollywood home on Oct. 14, 2025, after Tellez called 911, investigators said. She was rushed to a hospital and declared brain dead four days later. Her organs were donated before she was taken off life support.

While parents allegedly assured detectives that their baby was in perfect health, her autopsy revealed that the baby suffered gut-wrenching injuries including blunt force trauma to her head.

An affidavit obtained by Local10 News further details that doctors found brain injuries, bleeding in both eyes, retinal detachments and skull fractures.

The injuries were consistent with “non-accidental head trauma” and “violent shaking,” investigators said. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Over the course of the investigation, detectives discovered other details of Tellez and Ingram’s story that didn’t add up.

They allegedly told police that before 911 was called, the infant was fed and then placed into her bassinet to sleep. They claimed they would use Facetime on their phones to monitor the sleeping child.

But in the hours before the child was found unresponsive, damning phone records show that they were busy playing Call of Duty, the news station reported.

The pair were charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child. They were extradited from Jacksonville to Broward County, where they are being held without bond.