KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The murder trial of a St. Cloud man accused of killing his 3-month-old son in 2013 will begin Wednesday morning.
Investigators said Larry Perry beat Ayden Perry so badly at their home that the boy died at a hospital.
Archie Guzman, Perry's neighbor at the time, told Channel 9 in 2013 that she often babysat the child for Larry Perry and his girlfriend.
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Guzman said the beating was so loud that she could hear it from next door.
"I was coming into the kitchen, and all of a sudden I heard boom," she said. "He didn't mean to. I can feel it, because he just snapped."
Larry Perry told investigators that he harmed his son, because he couldn't take it anymore, an arrest report said.
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Larry Perry faces the death penalty if convicted.
The case was one of 24 that Florida Gov. Rick Scott reassigned from State Attorney Aramis Ayala to State Attorney Brad King after she announced she wouldn't pursue the death penalty during her tenure.
Opening statements will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
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