How many killers murdered this child?

A cruel reminder Hobbes was correct when he said life in the state of of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." For a 2-year-old boy named Roshaun Basey his life was all those things, especially short.

While the family said the boy, whom they called Ro Ro, was loved, his family also told 12 News reporter Nick Bohr about abuse by a man who also lived in the home.

"Yeah, he hit Ro Ro before. He whipped all the kids, but he hit Ro Ro harder than he hit all the other kids because Ro Ro was just bad. But Ro Ro ain't nothing but 2 years old," Roshaun's aunt, Erica Thomas, said.

"He'd whip Ro Ro with a belt and stuff. One time, he hit Ro Ro with an extension cord, and I got mad," Roshaun's aunt, Dominique Thomas, said.

The same man was watching Roshaun when family members said he called out that the boy wasn't breathing after falling off this bed.

"We ran to the kitchen, and we laid him down on the floor with a pillow, and we were trying to wake him up, but he wouldn't get up," Erica Thomas said,

He had suffered a broken neck.

More than just the suspect in custody is responsible for this little boy's death.