(L.A.) Royal Marshall, a Baby, Died in a Hospital

Case Number: 2018-08500

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a Black male that occurred in a hospital.

The coroner’s office has identified the infant boy as Royal Marshall.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Blunt Force Neck Trauma

RIP ROYAL MARSHALL (March 10, 2018 – November 7, 2018)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Wednesday at 10:09 p.m.

The seven-month-old was kiled by his mother Anaiyah Alise Perry. In August 2023, she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, as well as to four felony counts of child abuse involving the boy.

Perry is facing 21 years and four months in state prison. She is set to be sentenced Sept. 29 in Lancaster. She had been arrested in September 2019 by Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives and has remained behind bars on $2 million bail since then.

At an April 2021 hearing, a neighbor, Dustin Stober, testified that the boy’s father rushed over to his house holding his son and pleading for help on Nov. 6, 2018.

The military veteran said he began CPR on the baby as his wife called 911. He said the boy’s father was “visibly upset” and “crying,” while Perry seemed to be very deadpan.

The baby was rushed to Antelope Valley Hospital and subsequently airlifted to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he died the next day.

Dr. Carol Berkowitz, a board-certified child abuse pediatrician, testified in 2021 that she reviewed records from the case and concluded that it was her opinion that the boy was subjected to a “shaking motion” near the time of his death, not 10 to 14 days earlier.

Perry initially denied shaking the baby, then later acknowledged that she had lightly shaken him about a week and a half earlier while gently rocking him back and forth, sheriff’s investigators testified at the 2021 hearing.

Perry has been ordered not to have any contact with her older son, who has permanently been removed from Perry’s custody.