Father Charged With Killing Baby: Red Wing Police

RED WING, MN — A Red Wing man is charged with killing his 2-month-old son, according to police.

Hunter McCutchen, 27, faces charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter as well as child endangerment, police said.

Emergency personnel responded shortly after noon May 23 to the 500 block of Maple Street, where they found an unresponsive infant, who was taken to Red Wing Hospital and Clinic, and then to the St. Mary’s Campus of Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, according to police. The child died around 1 a.m. May 25, police said.

The boy’s mother, identified by the Star Tribune as Aonica Lex, 24, wrote in a Facebook post that the child was named Ozzy and was born prematurely.

“I love my baby more than anything in this world and if I could change what happened I would,” she wrote. “The only positive thing to come from this is my sweet angel was able to save 2 other babies and one adult with his gifts of a heart, liver, and kidneys.”

In the Facebook post, Lex also detailed elements of her relationship with McCutchen and said she has been subjected to harassment and misinformation in the wake of the tragedy.

“My sweet angel deserves justice and there is no sentence in prison that's enough to get him that,” she said, calling the situation “tragic and disgusting.”

The boy had several broken bones “in various stages of healing” as well as bleeding on the brain and lost brain function, according to the Tribune, which reported a doctor determined the baby had been excessively shaken.

McCutchen is jailed with bail set at $1.5 million, according to Goodhue County records. He has previously been convicted of domestic assault and violating a no-contact order, court records showed.