Eyewitnesses said that the Turlock man was beating a toddler to death late last night. Three different eyewitnesses tried to pull the man off the child but were quickly shaken off by the attacker.  There is no word yet as to why the attacker was beating the child, but police have said that the child was pronounced dead before he got to the hospital.

The elderly couple was the first to arrive on the scene and tried to keep the man from continuing to hit the small child. Others arrived on the scene and again tried to stop the man but didn’t have any luck with keeping him for hitting the child. When police first arrived on the scene, they thought that the man had hit a small child but were horrified to find out that it was a small boy that was bleeding in front of the car.  The police tried to jump in front of the man and stop him when the man lunged at the officer. The officer pulled out his gun and shot the man that had been attacking the child. Police have not released the identity of anyone that was involved yet.