GARY, Ind. (WISH) – A 32-year-old Illinois man has been charged with the murder of a 2-year-old boy, Gary police said Thursday.

The child was identified as Je’Loni Smith.

Ricky D. Larkin was charged Wednesday in Lake Superior Court, Criminal Division 3. He remained in jail Thursday night without bond. No court hearing has been set, online court records show. Matson was listed as being from Matteson, Illinois, a town southwest of Chicago.

Larkin had told authorities that he was the child’s father, but the child’s mother said that Larkin is not the child’s father but rather her occasional boyfriend, according to prosecutors.

The Gary Fire Department called police for help regarding a baby who was not breathing around 5:30 pm Monday in the 300 block of Arthur Street. That’s in a residential area south of the Grant Street intersection from the Indiana Toll Road.

Larkin said he discovered Je’Loni was not breathing while she was in a bathtub and tried to perform CPR on her without success.

Firefighters and police officers found swelling on the lifeless 2-year-old boy and called the Lake County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force and the county coroner.

Authorities took the boy to Northlake Methodist Hospital.

Je’Loni’s death was ruled a homicide Tuesday.

Prosecutors told Chicago media that the boy appeared to have been hit in the face and head. Je’Loni had a cut on her liver, bleeding under her scalp, cuts on her back and buttocks and scrapes on her neck and chest. No signs of drowning were found.

News 8 contacted the Lake County Coroner for Je’Loni’s cause of death.