Shayaa Yusef Forbes (Courtesy of Paulding County Sheriff's Officer)
ACWORTH, Ga. -- The death of a 12-year-old boy in Acworth Friday night revealed "horrific" evidence that the boy had been physically abused for weeks or months or longer, according to the Paulding County Sheriff's Office.
The boy's father is now in jail charged with cruelty to children, and investigators said Monday that, once the autopsy report is complete, they may also charge the father with murder.
The father is 32 year old Shayaa Forbes.
According to investigators, on Friday night Forbes called 911 from the family's home, and when Paulding County deputies arrived they say they found Eric Forbes unconscious, and he had been physically abused. Eric died later that night.
"The injuries ranged from extensive bruising to bite marks to lacerations, along with other types of injuries that would indicate physical abuse," said Paulding County Sheriff's Corporal Ashley Henson. "It appeared that it had gone on for some time, because the bruising was in different stages, fresh bruises as well as older bruises.... From the types of injuries that the young man received, it's just horrific."
Friends are asking themselves why they never noticed any evidence of abuse.
A next-door neighbor, Russell Utterberg, said Monday that he would see Shayaa Forbes and Eric and Eric's little sister playing out front every evening.
"You know we'd come out here and they would play ball, when he would throw the ball around to his kids. And I'd stand and talk to him every day," Utterberg said. There was never any indication of problems in the home, he said.
"No police coming out, no anything, no screaming, no crying.... He just really acted like he loved the little boy, and loved his little daughter, too."
Monday evening, a mother and her young children drove up to the Forbes home and placed a potted peace lily in front, along with a hand-written note to Eric, "Rest in Peace."
They are grieving for him.
"He was a nice kid," said one of the children, Jacob Day, a classmate of Eric.
"I just want to see them find out what happened."
Doug Judson, an 11Alive broadcast engineer, and his wife and children are friends with the Forbes family.
"We grieve for the family, and we just want to help out in any way we can," Judson said.
"Shayaa went to all the cheerleading practices, went to all the football practices," always active and involved with his children, Judson said.
"We just want to know what happened."
And, he said, Eric loved football.
"Loved his sports, real active. Just the kind of kid that, when he's at your house, that's how you hope your kids act when they're at someone's house. Just really nice all the time, 'yes, Sir,' 'no, Sir.' Just a real good kid."
Investigators will be interviewing Eric Forbes' little sister to try to determine if the father abused her.
She was in DFACs care Monday.
Investigators would not comment about the mother.
They are asking anyone with any information about any possible problems in the home to help them piece together what might have happened. The office to call is the Crimes Against Children Unit, 770-445-6105.
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