Details Emerge About Death of 2-Year-Old Boy; Mother and Boyfriend Appear in Bond Court

The mother of a 2-year-old boy and her boyfriend appeared in bond court on Wednesday after being arrested on charges related to the child’s death. “I love that boy, man,” the boyfriend, Claude Alexis, said of Ezra Raphael in court. A neighbor who did not want to be identified spoke about what she heard on the night of June 21. Debra Elder, the former foster mother of the boy’s mother Cierrah Raphael, spoke about Ezra.