It begins on April 20, 2017, at the Alpine Hotel in Inkster. While holding 8-month-old Janiyah in his arms and watching a movie, James Saltmarshall slept off. When he finally woke up, his daughter was not moving.
According to the news release, the baby’s mother went to work the morning of the accident and left her boyfriend, James Saltmarshall, alone with their healthy baby. She was not moving when she was found hours later.