Minnesota man sentenced for shaking death of two week-old son

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota man who killed his infant son has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.

Thirty-three-year-old Michael Herkal (pictured) admitted slapping and violently shaking the 13-day-old baby after the child wouldn’t stop crying.

He pleaded guilty Wednesday in the death of Anthony Herkal and was sentenced to 290 months in prison.

Police responded to a report of an infant who wasn’t breathing at a residence in Apple Valley, Minnesota on Aug. 12, 2018.

They found the baby without a pulse and turning purple.

The infant was hospitalized with a skull fracture and bleeding on his brain. He died two days later.