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Second-degree murder charges have been laid against the father of a three-month-old child who died in 2015.

Daniel Nel, 31, a former associate pastor at Calgary’s Rockyview Alliance Church, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the Aug. 31, 2015, death of the infant.

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Born that June, Cyrus Nel was found in medical distress that evening inside his family’s home in the 600 block of Taradale Drive N.E.

He died in hospital the next day.

Speaking to media on Friday, Insp. Don Coleman said the second-degree murder charges came following a lengthy investigation involving consultation with a number of pediatric specialists.

While police had concerns about the death from the very beginning, they said on April 24 that a new piece of medical evidence had emerged recently to persuade investigators that Cyrus’s death was a homicide.

There wasn’t any one piece of evidence that suddenly prompted investigators to lay charges against Nel, Coleman said.