Coweta firefighter charged in child's death

By Joel Provano

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Coweta County firefighter is facing multiple charges in the death of the 2-year-old son of his fiancee.

Casey Allen Spradlin, 25, faces counts of felony murder, malice murder, first-degree cruelty to children and aggravated battery in the death of Brayden Robinson, said John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

On Sept. 3, emergency personnel responded to a 911 call from a residence in Luthersville, Bankhead said. Inside the home they found Brayden unresponsive and he was airlifted to Egleston Children’s Hospital in Atlanta. Brayden later died from his injuries.

Spradlin, who was caring for Brayden at the time, told officials the boy had been injured in a fall.

But medical personnel who treated Brayden were skeptical, and investigators determined that the child died from blunt force head trauma, not a fall, Bankhead said. Spradlin was  arrested Tuesday in Meriwether County. He is being held without bond in the Meriwether County jail.

The GBI is asking anyone with additional information on the case to call 706-565-7888.