A 25-year-old Tuscaloosa mother is charged with murder in the death of her infant son.

Lakendra Yashekia Williams was booked in Tuscaloosa County Jail Thursday following an indictment issued against her the day before. She was indicted on the charges of murder and aggravated assault, court records show.

Williams was initially arrested on a domestic violence/assault charge in March of 2018 after Tuscaloosa police responded to Children's of Alabama in Birmingham on a report of a child suffering severe head trauma.

Once at the hospital, detectives launched an investigation into the assault of the child. The findings led to this initial charge against Williams.

According to a deposition in that case, the 8-week-old boy was rushed to DCH Regional Medical Center on March 28 after he became unresponsive at home. Once at the hospital, the boy went into cardiac arrest and was then transferred to Children’s of Alabama.

Medical staff there determined the boy received multiple fractures to his head and bleeding to the brain. Williams told detectives that she was holding her son in her arms and later dropped him on his head on the kitchen floor. “The defendant also believed she may have elbowed the victim in the head while she was asleep,’’ the investigator wrote. “The defendant state that the baby was whining which caused her to harm the victim.”

The deposition said the blunt force injuries to the boy happened between March 26 and March 28, 2018.

According to the indictment issued Wednesday, Williams “did willfully torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise maltreat said child” by physically beating and/or striking him multiple times. It also says she inflicted the injury with the intent to cause death.

Records don’t indicate when the boy died. Williams remained jailed Friday on $60,000 bond.