Just two months ago, emergency crews were called out to a home on Main Street in Ridgway for an unresponsive five-year-old.

Today, those who were supposed to take care of him were charged in his murder.

We were at the news conference and have more details in this murder investigation.

The DA has released the criminal complaints on Thursday afternoon of four people all facing charges in the death of little 5-year-old O’Ryan Murphy.

His uncle and aunt, Scott Murphy, 25, and Kristy Murphy, 35, are charged with criminal homicide after police say one or both of them hit O’Ryan in the head with some type of blunt object, killing him.

Police say the injuries found on the boy, who’d been dead for several hours in the upstairs apartment in Ridgway on Feb. 3, included bruising and two bite marks.

An autopsy later showed he had been hit in the head, according to the complaints.

O’Ryan’s mom and dad are charged with involuntary manslaughter because police say they shouldn’t have left him and a 3-year-old there.

Police say Ashlee Druhot, 23, and Daniel Murphy, 26, did not even visit the children for two months, since Dec. 3, and the caregivers they selected had “physically violent tendencies.”

Police say the apartment was cold, and filled with garbage, alcohol, prescriptions, and weapons like knives and a blackjack.

“Likewise, with respect to her charges, due to the nature of her lead charge of criminal homicide, she was not granted bail under the applicable rules of criminal procedure,” says District Attorney Shawn McMahon, referring to the charges against Kristy Murphy.

“The cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head and trunk and this death has been ruled a homicide,” says Coroner Michelle Muccio.

Police say the men were arrested in Crawford County, in the Meadville area, and the mom was arrested in Ridgway this afternoon, and the aunt was arrested in Brockport today.

The two homicide suspects are denied bail, McMahon said.

Bail for dad Daniel Murphy was set at $100,000 out of Crawford County and for mom Ashlee Druhot at $250,000, according to court records.

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Four people are facing charges for the death of a 5 year old boy.
 
Ashlee Druhot and Daniel Murphy are the boy’s parents.  They are facing involuntary manslaughter charges.
 
The boy’s aunt and uncle, Kristy and Scott Murphy are facing criminal homicide accused of hitting the boy with a blunt object over the head.
 
Emergency responders were called to an apartment in the 100 block of Main Street in Ridgway, Elk County, when the boy was found unresponsive on February 3rd.