10/26/2022
Nevada– Mom’s Boyfriend Accused Of Killing 2-Year-Old Boy And Beating Brother
Las Vegas Metro police arrested Johnny Garbarino Jr., 26, on Friday, Oct. 21, on charges including first-degree murder, records the 8 News Now Investigators reviewed indicated.
Kayden Boykin, 2, was discovered unresponsive in an apartment near Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Road on Oct. 12, police said. Garbarino is identified in police documents as the child’s mother’s boyfriend. Boykin died two days later at Sunrise Hospital.
Detectives with Metro’s abuse and neglect unit noted the child had several injuries, including cuts and abrasions, internal injuries and brain swelling, police said. His cause of death was caused by blunt force injuries, the Clark County coroner’s office confirmed Wednesday.
A second child was also taken to the hospital to be checked out for “multiple, patterned scars and bruises on his body,” police said. The child said “Johnny ‘whooped’ him with a belt,’” police said. The child’s birthday is redacted in police documents, but the birth year indicates he is 4 or 5.
