WATAUGA COUNTY -- A medical examiner's autopsy report shows a 10-month-old Watauga County child who died last march had multiple blunt force injuries.

Caius Bruner died two days after being taken to a hospital.

24-year-old Ryan Hicks of Boone was charged with second degree murder, two counts of felony child abuse, failing to register as a sex offender and a sex offender using a social media website.

The sheriff's office says he was dating Bruner's mother at the time.