Kentucky, where the regional medical examiner, Dr. Deidre Schluckebier, performed an autopsy. Prior to learning the results of the autopsy, Chief Garner of the Lewisport Police Department contacted Jason Dant and April Johnson regarding Addryana's death. On January 24, 2005, Chief Garner interviewed both Dant and Johnson at the police department, during which they gave similar statements recounting the events of the previous night as described above. Chief Garner then called the regional medical examiner to corroborate Dant's statement, at which point Dr. Schluckebier confirmed that Addryana had died from the type of head trauma that results from a baby's head being thrown back and forth with great force. Since Dant had previously told Chief Garner that he had shaken Addryana in order to help her breathe, ChiefGarner placed him under arrest. The following day, April Johnson contacted Chief Garner in order to give him a different statement. April stated that on the day before Addryana's death, she and Dant were arguing over whether someone had given Addryana her medicine. At one point, April told Dant to "shut up." According to April's statement, Dant then pushed April into a fish tank, threw her on the couch, and choked her twice. April also stated that even though she never saw Dant do anything to Addryana on January 23, he told her at the hospital that he was sorry, that he knew he would be blamed for Addryana's death, and that he knew he would lose her and Katilyn.
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