A 23-year-old father has been acquitted of murder charges in the case of his 6-week-old son’s death in November 2020. Xavier Darren Whitaker faced charges in 2022, two years after the tragic incident, following an investigation by the Pasadena Police Department. Court documents revealed that Whitaker was looking after his son, Xavier Darren Whitaker, Jr., while the baby’s mother was asleep. The infant was hospitalized on November 11, 2020, and succumbed to his injuries nine days later. An autopsy concluded that the child died from blunt force trauma, and the death was ruled a homicide.