A father in Oklahoma is behind bars after his infant son was taken to a hospital with a "deformed skull" and subsequently died, police say.

Tyrice Antione Williams, 24, stands accused of one count of murder in the first degree by child abuse , according to the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office. Prosecutors also filed a so-called "application to accelerate," which is the Sooner State equivalent of an allegation a defendant violated the terms of a previously deferred criminal sentence.

On Monday, officers arrived in response to a domestic violence call at the Eagle Pointe Apartments on East 71st Street in the Charter Oak neighborhood of south Tulsa, police said in a press release .

There, law enforcement discovered the 1-month-old baby boy suffering from cardiac arrest and in dire need of med

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