Michigan couple wanted in murder, torture of child is nabbed in south Georgia

A Michigan mother and her boyfriend, both charged with the New Year's Day murder of her 4-year-old daughter, were arrested Tuesday in South Georgia.

Candice Renea Diaz and her boyfriend, Brad Edward Fields, were driving near Lake Park, about 13 miles south of Valdosta, when they were nabbed by U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task and Lowndes County sheriff's deputies just before 4 p.m.

The arrests were announced on Sumpter Township Police Department's Facebook page. In a previous post on Monday, the department detailed their alleged crime.

Shortly before 11 a.m. Jan. 1, someone in a mobile home community called 911 to report a child was unresponsive.

"Upon arrival, CPR was being administered by family members and officers found the child suffering from severe burns about her extremities," the police department's post said. Diaz's 4-year-old daughter, identified by mlive.com as Gabrielle Barrett, died shortly after arriving at a hospital.

On Jan. 3, Barrett's death was ruled a homicide. The medical examiner reported evidence of multiple traumatic injuries including signs of battered child syndrome, which include observations of multiple other injuries in multiple locations on her body that were in various stages of healing, the post said.

Diaz, 24, and Fields, 28, each face charges including felony murder, second-degree homicide, first-degree child abuse and torture. Fields also is charged as a habitual offender.

This story was originally published January 9, 2018 at 8:08 PM with the headline "Michigan couple wanted in murder, torture of child is nabbed in south Georgia."