Police reportedly said those injures were inflicted by 38-year-old Orlando Williams, the fiance of the child’s mother.

Williams was supposed to be watching JonMarquis at a home in North Braddock, Pa., while his mother was at work, according to a criminal complaint cited by KDKA-TV.

The complaint stated that Williams entered the boy’s room at night and — after tripping over a laundry basket — woke the child up and angrily demanded that he clean his room.Williams, who allegedly had been drinking, returned several minutes later to find the sitting on his bed instead of cleaning his room.

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Allegheny County police said Williams picked up the boy and attempted to slam him against the bed, according to the Associated Press. Instead, he missed the bed and child instead landed on the floor, causing severe injury.

Citing the complaint, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Williams instructed the child to get up three times, but he “was unresponsive.”

Williams carried the boy downstairs and put him in a living room chair, where he remained until the next morning, the paper reported.

At that point, Williams and JonMarquis’s mother took the boy to a Pittsburgh hospital, where doctors placed him on a ventilator and called police because of the extreme nature of his injuries, the AP reported. In addition to head trauma, those injuries included bruising to the head, neck, buttocks and chest area, according to the complaint cited by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office told KDKA-TV that Stepich died Thursday. Following an autopsy, investigators determined that he was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Police arrested Williams and charged him with homicide, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child, KDKA-TV reported.

Williams was taken to the Allegheny County Jail, where he is being held without bond, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

NBC affiliate WPXI reported that Williams “is a Tier 3 sex offender,” which bars him from being in the presence of children. Police have not announced whether Williams will face additional charges based upon his designation as a sex offender.

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“No child, regardless of the circumstances, deserves to be beaten that severely,” Raymond Stepich, JohnMarquis’s uncle, told the station, noting that the severity of the boy’s injuries doesn’t match William’s account of the incident.

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“He had bruises throughout his body, his arms (and) his chest. He had scratches on his neck (and) his head,” he added, according to the station.

A GoFundMe page started earlier this week by family members has raised more than $2,000 for JonMarquis’s funeral costs.

“Our 8 year old nephew was brutally beaten and was declared brain dead,” the page description states. “This sudden tragedy has caused heartache and disbelief with the family.”