QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) -- A 29-year-old Queens man was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for killing his 3-year-old son in an Elmhurst shelter, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday.

A jury convicted Shaquan Butler of murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree, and six counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Butler was living with his three-year-old son, Shaquan Butler, Jr., two additional children, and the children's mother in a family shelter at an Elmhurst hotel at the time of the murder, according to trial testimony.

On Nov. 13, 2022, police received a call from the children's mother that Shaquan, Jr. was not breathing.

EMS discovered the child lying naked on the floor with bruises all over his body, prosecutors say. Butler reportedly told

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