Investigators say cellphone activity conflicted with the parents’ account of how they monitored their 7-week-old daughter before she was found unresponsive.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Cellphone records showing hours of gaming and other activity became a key part of the investigation that led Hollywood police to arrest two parents in connection with the death of their 7-week-old daughter, according to an arrest affidavit.
Gracie Jai Tellez, 20, and Robert Lee Ingram, 22, are charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement. Police arrested them Aug. 7 in Jacksonville after a months-long investigation into injuries the infant suffered in October 2025. Both were later returned to Broward County and ordered held without bond. The charges remain allegations.
The case began Oct. 14, 2025, when Tellez called 911 from the family’s Farragut Street home shortly before noon. The baby was pale, cold and unresponsive, investigators said. Police officers performed CPR before Hollywood Fire Rescue took the infant to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. Medical examinations later found severe head and brain injuries, including fractures and injuries to the eyes that doctors said were consistent with non-accidental trauma.
Investigators said the parents initially described an otherwise routine morning. According to the affidavit, they said the child had been fed, fallen asleep and been placed in a bassinet. They also told detectives that they sometimes used FaceTime between their phones as a makeshift baby monitor. Neither parent told investigators about an accident that could explain the baby’s injuries, police said.
Detectives later obtained search warrants for the phones and reviewed forensic downloads from the devices. According to the affidavit, the data did not show the FaceTime monitoring activity investigators expected from the parents’ account. Instead, police said the devices showed extended use of the video game Call of Duty and YouTube during the overnight hours and morning before the emergency call.
The affidavit says Ingram’s phone was used to play Call of Duty from about 5:12 a.m. until 8:39 a.m. and again from about 10:33 a.m. until 11:49 a.m. Tellez’s phone also showed extended game activity, including from about 10:38 a.m. until roughly 11:52 a.m. The 911 call was placed from her phone shortly afterward. Those records establish phone activity, but they do not by themselves establish when or how the infant’s injuries occurred.
Police said the phone evidence was significant because it was one of several parts of the parents’ accounts that investigators believed were inconsistent. Detectives said Ingram gave differing descriptions of when the child was fed, when she was placed in the bassinet and how many times she was moved. Investigators said another timeline emerged when he later reenacted the events at the home.
Medical evidence also became central to the case. Investigators said the child had been considered healthy and had no documented history of significant injuries before Oct. 14. Doctors found serious brain and head injuries after she was hospitalized. A Broward County medical examiner later determined that she died from complications of blunt head trauma and classified the death as a homicide. She was declared brain dead Oct. 18.
The affidavit states that the baby was under the care of both parents during the period investigators examined. Police alleged that the size and layout of the residence made it unlikely that both parents would have been unaware of an event severe enough to cause the injuries. Neither parent provided detectives with an explanation for how the injuries occurred, according to the affidavit.
Police ultimately alleged that Tellez and Ingram failed to provide the care and supervision required for the child and that their culpable negligence contributed to her death. The investigation resulted in arrest warrants that were executed in Jacksonville with assistance from federal marshals and local authorities. A Broward County judge later found probable cause and ordered both defendants held without bond while their cases proceed.
Author note: Last updated August 15, 2026.