SAN ANTONIO – A local man has been charged in the death of a 10-year-old girl on the city's Northwest Side, San Antonio police said Tuesday.
Paul Anthony Bateman, 32, has been taken into police custody and is charged with murder.
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According to the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office, 10-year-old Reanne Olivarez died on Monday afternoon. The exact circumstances surrounding her death are not currently known.
Officers originally responded to an injured/sick person call at the Ashler Oaks Apartments in the 4100 block of Parkdale Street around 3 p.m. Monday. Emergency crews found Olivarez with blunt force trauma to the head and chest and pronounced Olivarez dead at the scene.
A preliminary police report said Bateman failed to call police and instead called someone else to the apartment and that person called for help.
Police said Olivarez' mother and common-law stepfather were working when Reanne and a 1-year-old were left with Bateman. The 1-year-old was not hurt.
Police said Bateman refused to talk about the circumstances regarding the girl's death.
Court records show that Bateman has had a number of previous arrests, including at least one for a violent crime.
Bateman was arrested in 2005 on a charge of injury to the elderly and records say he was declared insane and spent close to a decade at a state hospital in Vernon. He was released in 2016.
Bateman's bond has been set at $200,000. Police said the investigation is ongoing.