The 2-year-old boy brought to a Wichita hospital Tuesday night with a small octopus stuck in his throat has shown significant improvement, police said Thursday. 
 
 He has been upgraded to good condition and so far doesn’t show signs of long-term injury caused by oxygen deprivation to the brain, Wichita police Lt. James Espinoza said. 
 
 “There will be some more tests today” to assess the toddler’s responses, he said. 
 
 The boy’s 21-year-old mother told investigators she returned home from work Tuesday night to find her 36-year-old boyfriend performing CPR on her son, police have said. The child was not breathing when he was brought to the hospital from their house in the 4900 block of East Waterman. 
 
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 In the course of assessing the child’s conditions, doctors extricated the small octopus from the child’s throat. The head of the dead octopus measured about 2 inches in diameter. 
 
 Police were notified by the hospital when the boyfriend’s stories about how the boy swallowed the octopus and sustained minor injuries to his face were not consistent with the evidence, Espinoza said. 
 
 The boyfriend was taken to Exploited and Missing Child Unit offices for questioning and arrested shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday on suspicion of child abuse. He has since bonded out of the Sedgwick County Jail. 
 
 The investigation into the incident is continuing, Espinoza said. He called the 2-year-old condition “a very delicate situation.” 
 
 At some point soon, a detective specially trained to interview young children will visit with the boy. 
 
 “That’s an interview that will need to take place,” Espinoza said. 
 
 Police have said the octopus was not a pet. It was likely intended to be used as sushi. ||||| WICHITA, Kansas – Wichita police say a 2-year-old boy is now in good condition after an octopus was found lodged in his throat. 
 
 The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 4900 block of East Waterman. 
 
 Police say a 21-year-old mother returned home from work and found her 36-year-old boyfriend trying to do CPR on the 2-year-old boy. The boy wasn’t breathing. 
 
 EMS responded and transferred the boy in critical condition. 
 
 At the hospital, doctors found a small octopus has been lodged in the boy’s throat. The octopus appeared to be for sushi according to police. The boy also had facial injuries. 
 
 The Wichita Police Department’s Exploited and Missing Child Unit interviewed the mother’s boyfriend. He was identified by police arrest records as Matthew Gallagher. Police say he was not able to explain why the boy had ended up that way. He is facing child abuse charges. ||||| ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A father pulled from the wreckage of a crash told deputies he crashed his car to try and "kill my son." 
 
 The crash, which happened at 11:05 a.m. on Sunday, August 21 on Eudora Way, led witnesses to call police. 
 
 One witness who called 911 told dispatchers that an adult in the crashed car was "hitting the child in the vehicle," according to the arrest warrant obtained by Denver7. 
 
 By the time deputies arrived, bystanders had rescued the child. 
 
 Deputies said they said two nearby adults holding a small child "with a large head laceration on the forehead that was heavily bleeding," the arrest warrant said. "He was crying and appeared to be fading, going in and out consciousness." 
 
 Firefighters with Littleton Fire department told deputies that when they tried to remove the driver, 29-year-old Nathan Weitzel, from the vehicle, "he removed a piece of glass from his facial area and attempted to slit his own throat." 
 
 "When one of the firefighters, Reice O'Keefe, was removing him [Weitzel] from the vehicle, Reice grabbed onto Nathan's right hand to stop him from slitting his own throat. Nathan with his left hand, balled up his fist and punched Reice on the chin," the arrest warrant said. 
 
 When a deputy interviewed Weitzel at the hospital, the deputy said he asked Weitzel how the crash happened. 
 
 "He spontaneously uttered, 'Because I tried to kill my son,'" the arrest warrant said. 
 
 The deputy said he didn't ask any follow up questions and notified his supervisor. 
 
 When a second investigator questioned Weitzel and asked if he was trying to avoid hitting something, Weitzel replied, "I was trying to kill my son," the arrest warrant said. 
 
 Weitzel went on to the tell the investigator that he took his son to play in the park and while his son played, Weitzel said "he sat in the park and thought of a way to kill his son," according to the arrest warrant. 
 
 Weitzel said he did not buckle his child in the car seat, then "he drove around looking for a good place to crash the car and kill his son," the warrant said. "Nathan said the reason he wanted to kill [his son] was because being a father was a big responsibility and he did not think he was man enough to raise a child." 
 
 Weitzel told investigators his son was really good kid. 
 
 The boy was found with a broken leg, a concussion and need several stitches on his forehead, investigators said. 
 
 Weitzel was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. During his police interview, Weiztel said he used cocaine before the crash. 
 
 Weitzel is also facing charges of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injuries, second-degree assault, criminal mischief and vehicular assault. He is facing up to 48 years in prison if he is convicted on the attempted murder charge alone. 
 
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– Doctors must have been shocked when they pulled a small octopus from the throat of a 2-year-old boy who arrived at the hospital not breathing. The boy's 21-year-old mother arrived home from work Tuesday night to find her 36-year-old boyfriend, Matthew Gallagher, giving CPR to her son, according to KSNW. The boy was rushed to a hospital in Wichita, Kansas, where doctors removed the octopus from his throat. The AP reports the octopus's head was about 2 inches across. It was likely meant to be used in sushi. The boy, who also showed evidence of facial injuries, was upgraded from critical to good condition on Wednesday. The Wichita Eagle reports he's showing no signs of permanent damage from oxygen deprivation. Gallagher was arrested on suspicion of child abuse when his explanation for the octopus and facial injuries didn't match up with what doctors observed. An expert will interview the boy when he's ready, and an investigation into the incident is continuing. Police say it's a "very delicate situation."