BAY CITY, MI — A Bay County father is charged with killing his infant son nearly two years ago.

Zachary M. Touchtone, 22, was arraigned on Monday, Aug. 18, before Saginaw County District Court Judge Dawn Kilda on one count of first degree child abuse.

About 3:45 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2023, paramedics and firefighters responded to a residence in the 800 block of East Erickson Road in Pinconning when a mother called 911 to report her 5-month-old son wasn’t breathing.

She was at work at the time and said Touchtone, her live-in boyfriend and the boy’s father, had contacted her about the emergency.

The baby, Jack M. Bills, was taken to Ascension Hospital in Standish where staff pronounced him deceased at 4:50 p.m., according to police reports obtained by MLive.

Bay County Sheriff’s deputies beg

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