As Baltimore County police officer Dominic Rizzo stood over a toddler who had just been dragged beneath a truck for nearly two miles, he knew the child was still alive ? and suffering.

“It appeared to me that his chest was breathing,” Rizzo testified Wednesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court on the third day of the vehicular manslaughter trial of Lazara Arellano de Hogue, 41. “It was rising and falling in rapid succession. As I moved, his eyes continued to follow in my direction. His eyes were tracking me.”

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