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   Awoman charged with murder and other counts stemming from her 4-   
   year-old daughter's death had repeatedly slapped and kicked her   
   before summoning an ambulance to their South Los Angeles home   
   nearly two years ago, two of the girl's brothers testified on   
   Tuesday.   
      
   The testimony came during a hearing before Los Angeles County   
   Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor, who is being asked to   
   decide whether there is sufficient evidence to require Akira   
   Keyshell Smith, now 36, to stand trial on one count each of   
   murder, torture and assault on a child causing death involving   
   the Aug. 11, 2020, death of her daughter, Eternity.   
      
   The criminal complaint alleges that Smith was convicted in 2016   
   of assault with a deadly weapon and in 2014 of injuring a   
   spouse, cohabitant, fiancé or boyfriend.   
      
   The girl's oldest brother, now 18, testified that his mother   
   kept "slapping and slapping'' Eternity that day, and that he   
   also saw his mother choking his sister and "kicking her while   
   she was on the floor.''   
      
   The young man -- who said he told his mother to stop --   
   testified that his mother eventually went to her room while he   
   checked on his sister who was on the floor in the hallway. He   
   said he subsequently told his mother that the girl's stomach was   
   moving in a weird way.   
      
   "My mom told me to get her some food. She didn't want any of   
   it,'' the girl's oldest brother testified, adding later that his   
   mother also told him to get some water for her. "We called the   
   ambulance to come and hurry up,'' he said.   
      
   Another of the girl's brothers, who is now 10, said he doesn't   
   remember so well what happened to his sister.   
      
   "What did you see your mom do? Was there hitting?'' Deputy   
   District Attorney Jon Hatami asked.   
      
   "Definitely hitting,'' the younger boy testified, adding that he   
   believed that there was also kicking and slapping as his sister   
   cried.   
      
   When asked why he didn't try to stop his mother, the boy   
   responded, "What if I was next?''   
      
   The boy testified that the girl was "just laying there, not   
   crying any more'' and "wasn't moving at all'' after his mother   
   stopped the alleged attack.   
      
   He acknowledged that he would sometimes play-fight with the   
   girl, and that she had fallen at one point from a bunk bed   
   probably about a month earlier.   
      
   Defense attorney Kimberly Greene asked the boy if his mother   
   would sometimes seem sad and whether he ever saw his mother   
   taking medication. He responded that she sometimes seemed sad   
   and that she had pills.   
      
   Matthew Holguin, a firefighter/paramedic with the Los Angeles   
   City Fire Department, testified that the girl was pale, cold and   
   wet when he responded to the home about 5:12 p.m. that day, and   
   that family members said they had poured water on the girl in an   
   effort to wake her up.   
      
   "It just seemed very calm in the house,'' Holguin told the   
   judge, noting that it was unusual under the circumstances.   
      
   Holguin said firefighters were informed by the mother that the   
   girl was last seen walking in the hallway when she just   
   collapsed. Paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive the girl,   
   who was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 5:41 p.m.   
   that night, Holguin testified.   
      
   When asked if he heard Smith saying, "Oh, God,'' and repeating   
   her daughter's name, he said he wouldn't describe her demeanor   
   as emotional.   
      
   Los Angeles police Officer Elizabeth Armendariz, who was   
   summoned to the hospital, said she observed the girl with   
   multiple contusions to her face and "visible vomit in her hair   
   and coming out of her mouth'' after she had already been   
   pronounced dead.   
      
   The officer said she subsequently spoke to the girl's mother,   
   who reported that she had put the girl in a time out after she   
   urinated on herselfwhile in the garage.   
      
   The woman told police that she subsequently allowed the girl   
   back into the house and heard her children playing together   
   before one of her sons informed her that the girl had fallen,   
   according to the officer.   
      
   Smith began to cry after being approached at the hospital and   
   indicated that she thought people were trying to blame her for   
   the girl'sdeath, the officer said under cross-examination by   
   Smith's attorney.   
      
   Coroner's investigator Lauren Diaz testified that she also spoke   
   that day with the girl's mother, who reported that it was   
   stressful being the sole provider for her four children,   
   including an infant son, and that she had regained custody of   
   them in March 2020 after being released from prison.   
      
   The girl's mother said that she was under a doctor's care for   
   mental health, and that she initially believed that the girl had   
   vomited for attention while in a time-out, the investigator told   
   the judge.   
      
      
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