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TAMPA, FL -- Heavily shackled and handcuffed, the man accused of killing a 3-month-old boy appeared before a judge Wednesday.
Judge Walter Heinrich ordered Richard McTear held without bond, saying, ""Obviously, you won't be getting out of jail anytime soon."
Three guards escorted McTear to and from the courtroom at the Orient Road Jail. Hillsborough County jail commander Jim Previtera labeled McTear "a high security risk."
McTear, 21, is accused of abducting the infant, Emanuel Murray, and then throwing him out of a car window onto I-275 early Tuesday morning.
He was captured about 4 hours after the infant's lifeless body was found.
Jason Bird, a news photographer for WTVT-TV, found the child in the southbound emergency lane near
Fowler Avenue around 4:30 a.m.
About an hour earlier, deputies had been called to a home at 12414 North 15th Street for a report of domestic violence at the Marbella Apartments.
The caller, Jasmine Bedwell, said that she and McTear were fighting and that she and her 3-month-old son had been beaten. Bedwell told deputies McTear threw a car seat containing the child across the room during the fight, causing the boy to fall onto the apartment's concrete floor.
She said he then picked up the baby and took off in a blue 4-door Chevrolet Impala.
The baby was pronounced dead alongside the Interstate shortly after paramedics arrived.
McTear has a prior record. He was previously arrested on charges including felony battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and domestic battery by strangulation.
After his arrest, McTear was taken to Tampa Police District 3 Headquarters and then taken to the Falkenburg Road Jail.
When ABC Action News reporter Dustin Chase asked how he could throw a baby out the window, McTear responded "It's a dirty game."
Tuesday afternoon he was charged with 1st degree murder following the conclusion of the baby's autopsy. The county medical examiner detemined the child had died from blunt trauma to the head.
McTear is also charged with burglary with a battery, felony battery, aggravated child abuse, and kidnapping.
He was later taken to the Orient Road Jail, where, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, he told reporters, "I'm not a monster."
