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  1-Year-Old Is Killed, and Mother’s Boyfriend Is Arrested The infant, Legacy Beauford, was killed in the Bronx. In Brooklyn, a 4-year-old boy died after being found unconscious in a hallway. The boys’ murders follow the death of 7-year-old Julissia Batties, who was killed last month at the Mitchel Houses in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. Credit... Desiree Rios for The New York Times By  Ashley Southall  and  Chelsia Rose Marcius Sept. 12, 2021 The night before 1-year-old Legacy Beauford died, he was crying uncontrollably. That frustrated his mother’s boyfriend, Keishawn Gordon, who was babysitting for him overnight on Wednesday in the family’s apartment in the Bronx’s Webster Houses. When police questioned Mr. Gordon about Legacy’s injuries after the baby’s death, he initially told investigators that he gently squeezed the boy’s stomach and tossed him in the air to pacify him, according to a criminal complaint filed in court after Mr. Gordon was arrested ...