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Salem PD investigates death of infant

SALEM — The police department is investigating the death of an infant.

Officers responded with the fire department to a residence in the 300 block of West Pershing Street at 1:03 p.m. Sunday for a report of an unresponsive infant. According to the police report, the infant was ultimately transported to the Salem Regional Medical Center, and further information was collected for the investigation.

While Police Chief J.T. Panezott said no further details of the ongoing investigation were available at this time, he did confirm that while the original report did not say so, the approximately 5-month-old female infant had died.

“It was a suspicious death, and we are investigating it as such,” said Panezott.

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