Webthe boy has been identified as giovanni mejias, and the suspect is the boyfriend of the boy's mother, elis nelson ortiz, who's in kent county sheriff's custody. Webhernandez's boyfriend, elis nelson ortiz (who is not the boy's father), has been arrested and charged with murdering the boy. A search of hernandez in the kent. “little giovanni suffered in a way. Deputies found mejias “actively dying on the kitchen floor,’’ a kent county assistant prosecutor told jurors at trial. Webelis nelson ortiz was convicted in december of beating giovanni mejias, causing his death. Mejias was his girlfriend’s son. While the judge was delivering his.
