Sayre Man Charged With First Degree Murder – Child Abuse

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May 12, 2021

By News Director Jared Atha

A Sayre man is suspected of killing a one-year-old child.

30-year-old Taylor Dale Lambert was arrested Friday on a felony warrant for suspicion of first-degree murder – child abuse, according to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation news release.

The Sayre Police Department asked OSBI on Nov. 14, 2020, to investigate the suspicious death of a one-year-old boy, who died on that day.

OSBI stated that the autopsy results showed the baby’s death was the result of a homicide, and that Lambert was the boyfriend of the child’s mother at the time of his death.

Sayre officers and Department of Wildlife Game Wardens arrested Lambert. He was booked into the Beckham County Sheriff’s Office.

In a probable cause affidavit obtained by Paragon Communications, the incident took place in Lambert’s home, while the boy was in Lambert’s care while the mother of the child was taking a shower.

The mother is not suspected of any wrongdoing in the case.

Bond for Lambert was denied on Friday. A preliminary hearing in Beckham County District Court has been scheduled for August 17.