Couple charged with murder of infant

MARIETTA - Authorities Thursday charged a Cobb County couple with murder after their two-month-old baby died this week. <br> <br> According to a criminal warrant filed in Cobb Magistrate Court, the child was shaken so severely Saturday night that her retinas detached. She was taken off life support and died Tuesday afternoon. <br> <br> Thirty-seven-year-old Alonzo Tate and 35-year-old Stephanie Edwards were being held without bond in a Cobb County jail. They were arrested Monday on aggravated battery charges. The murder charges were added after an autopsy on the girl. <br> <br> A probable cause and bond hearing was set for April 26th. <br> <br> Rescue workers were called to the couple&#39;s home around 2:15 p.m. Sunday. The mother told dispatchers that the baby had stopped breathing. <br> <br> The baby was taken to WellStar Cobb Hospital, where doctors say they found signs of violent trauma. She then was transferred by helicopter ambulance to Children&#39;s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.

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