Damon bound over on murder, child abuse

Marshall man Chadwick Damon, 20, was bound over for circuit court trial by Calhoun County District Court Judge Marvin Ratner Tuesday after a 2 1/2 hour preliminary examination in which Lt. Sean Loughrige, a forensic interviewer with the Michigan State Police and an assisant Marshall Football Coach testified that Damon told him he had struck Mackenzie VandenHeede on the back of the head the evening of July 12. Mackenzie, 4, died four days later at Bronson Methodist Hospital. Dr. Joyce DeJong of Sparrow Hospital, who performed Mackenzie's autopsy, said she died from blunt force trauma to the head and that the injury was too severe to have been caused by a fall from a bed as Damon told police, according to testimony. See more on the circumstances surrounding this case in the Saturday Chronicle.