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Iredell Infant Death: Kendal Hayes and Glenn Delgreco Investigation
Mooresville · Iredell County, North Carolina
Legal status: Parents Kendal Hayes and Glenn Delgreco face reported first-degree murder indictments. Alice and Thomas Evans face separate child-abuse-related allegations.
A three-month-old girl died following a May 13, 2026 emergency response. September reporting attributes murder indictments against her parents to an Iredell grand jury and describes distinct allegations against her grandparents.
Editorial standard: Charges and police accounts are allegations. Each defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Reported settings, attorney arguments and court findings are identified separately.
02 | Victim background
The infant’s name is withheld here. The sheriff alleged severe malnourishment and dehydration. The page avoids an invented portrait and treats the child’s medical history as an evidentiary issue requiring original records.
03 | People and documented roles
Kendal Hayes and Glenn Delgreco are the parents. Alice Loraine Evans and Thomas Virgil Evans are the grandparents. The sheriff alleges all four lived in the home and shared caregiving responsibilities; individual knowledge and conduct must be established separately.
04 | Charging allegations
Local reporting distinguishes the parents’ first-degree murder indictments from the felony child-abuse and aiding-and-abetting allegations involving all four adults. News accounts disagree on Delgreco’s suffix; this page omits it until the filed identification is checked.
05 | Interactive event-by-event timeline
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View More — May 13, 2026 — Emergency response
Deputies responded to a CPR call. The infant was taken to Duke Lake Norman Hospital and pronounced dead, according to sheriff-attributed reporting.
View More — June 11 — Initial arrests
The sheriff announced arrests of the parents and grandparents on child-abuse-related allegations.
View More — September 2 — Grand-jury presentation
Investigators reportedly presented evidence and medical findings to the grand jury.
View More — September 15 — Indictments served
Hayes and Delgreco were reportedly served with first-degree murder indictments while detained.
06 | Investigation and evidence
View More — Reported medical findings
Sheriff-attributed reporting says the medical examiner identified severe protein-calorie malnutrition due to caregiver neglect and classified the death as homicide. The original autopsy has not been reviewed here.
View More — Caregiving and medical attention
The sheriff alleges shared care and an absence of necessary treatment despite visible distress. Feeding records, medical contacts and each adult’s conduct require separate examination.
07 | Prosecution and defense
View More — Prosecution allegations
The reported theory concerns failure to provide necessary nutrition and medical care. A medical homicide classification does not by itself decide criminal intent or each defendant’s responsibility.
View More — Defense position and limits of the reviewed record
No substantive defense position or expert report was obtained. The full medical record and any competing analysis remain outstanding.
08 | Courtroom developments
The parents’ murder indictments and grandparents’ separate charges concern different allegations.
09 | Verdicts, sentencing and appeals
The charges in this prosecution are pending. Earlier convictions, acquittals or declined charges described elsewhere concern separate proceedings.
10 | Unresolved questions
View More — Questions to resolve
- What does each defendant’s charging instrument allege?
- What do original feeding, growth and treatment records establish?
- What was each adult’s knowledge and caregiving role?
- What are the current hearing dates and custody orders?
View More — Priority source documents
Obtain the operative charging instrument, current docket and orders, complete relevant police and medical records where publicly available, and any filed defense response. An unavailable document is not described as reviewed.
11 | Court records and source documents
The entries below distinguish official agency material, reported accounts and access portals. Original court-stamped documents remain outstanding where noted.