COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a Pottawattamie County man accused in the death of a toddler. Council Bluffs police said Tuesday, that 23-year-old Javon Jennings, of Council Bluffs, was in the Pottawattamie County Jail when notified of the first-degree murder charge. He’d already pleaded not guilty to a child endangerment charge and was scheduled to go on trial Aug. 14.

Jennings was arrested in April after Council Bluffs officers and medics responded April 19^th to an apartment, to check a report about an unresponsive child. The 16-month-old girl was pronounced dead there.

Police say Jennings was the sole caretaker of the girl when she was fatally injured. Her injuries included a broken left leg.