A 22-month-old girl killed Sunday in Tuscaloosa was put to bed injured, or worse, for much of the day before her father finally called 911, records show.

Samuel Cabbil, 31, is charged with capital murder, Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit Capt. Kip Hart. He is charged in the blunt force trauma death of young Kandice Cabbil.

Court records made public Tuesday provide more details about what led to Kandice's death. Investigators responded to DCH Regional Medical Center about 10:15 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, they learned the little girl had been brought in by an ambulance from Broadmoore Gardens Apartments on Third Avenue East in Tuscaloosa.

Samuel Cabbil, Hart said, initially reported that he found her unresponsive and called 911. She was pronounced dead at the hospital at 10:45 p.m.

Kandice had severe bruising to her face, head, back and buttocks. Hart said investigators almost immediately believed foul play was involved and suspected Cabbil was involved. The injury took place inside an apartment where Cabbil, Kandice and other family had friends had spent the day, but it was not Cabbil's apartment.

He was found in the area, and taken into custody for question. He was held overnight on a traffic writ until he was formally charged Monday with capital murder. Kandice's body was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for autopsy. On Monday, the results showed she died from blunt force trauma.

Cabbil told detectives he got upset and pushed his daughter to the floor, according to charging documents. He said he "snatched her up of the floor by one arm and then shook her violently."

He then said Kandice was crying when he pushed her on the floor. She stopped crying after he shook her, and she became unresponsive. At that point, Cabbil put his unresponsive daughter in the bed and left her there for the rest of the day. That was about 2 p.m.

Cabbil said he checked on her several times, but she never woke up. It was only then, about 9:30 p.m., that Cabbil called 911 when he realized she was not going to wake up.

Investigators recovered the bed sheets and blankets from the bed where Kandice was found, records show. Hart said a number of items of evidence were taken from the apartment, but he said that doesn't necessarily mean a weapon was used in the killing.

The autopsy for Kandice showed she had severe blunt force trauma to the head and multiple skull fractures.

Kandice's mother was at work and not at the apartment when Kandice was killed. There were four to five other children in the apartment at the time, but they weren't injured. Hart said not all of the children belonged to Cabbil, and said DHR has been brought into the case.

Cabbil is being held without bond in the Tuscaloosa County Jail.

Court records show Cabbil is no stranger to trouble with the law. At the time of his weekend arrest, he was currently awaiting trial for felony drug possession - synthetic marijuana. He was arrested on that charge in 2016 and indicted in 2017.

In 2010, Cabbil pleaded guilty to arson. In that case, records show, Cabbil walked up to a porch where people were sitting, started pouring gasoline out of a can and said, "I'm going to blow this mother(expletitve) up.'' Next he said, "I'm not going to blow it up. Pysch."

Then, however, he put gasoline in a cup, lit it on fire and tossed the cup onto the porch. The blaze spread from the porch to the roof, causing extensive damage to the home. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for that case.

In 2010, Cabbil pleaded guilty to burglary and was sentenced to 60 months in prison.