“My mother told the paramedics Olivia was confused by all the noise,” I said.

“Olivia told the specialist her mother yelled at Emma first,” Detective Mitchell said.

“Then she saw the pan strike your daughter.

She also said your mother told her to stay out in the hall and keep quiet.”

Detective Mitchell clicked her pen three times and printed a nine-digit case number across the folder’s top tab.

“The county prosecutor went over the initial report thirty minutes ago,” Mitchell said.

“Based on Olivia’s detailed statement and the medical examiner’s findings on the earlier pinch marks, we’re opening a formal felony assault investigation against Vanessa Miller.”