SAN ANTONIO – During passionate closing arguments Monday afternoon, prosecutors urged the jury in the felony murder trial of Rafael Trevino to find him guilty.
In his statement to police played for the jury last week, Trevino initially denied harming 7-week-old Liliana Trevino on the night of Nov. 4, 2010.
But he later admitted shaking the child.
"It's pretty clear that he was intending to shut her up," prosecutor Zach Edwards told the jury. "To 'calm her ass down,' in his words."
Edwards reminded the jury of the medical examiner's testimony that the child died from blunt-force trauma.
"To get to that level of injury, you have to be hit against something," he said.
Suzanne Kramer, Trevino's lawyer, urged the jury to consider lesser offenses, including injury to a child by reckless conduct.
She argued that Trevino did not intend to kill his daughter and that he was "frustrated, and just lost it."