Man Cleared of Killing His 2-Year-Old Daughter After His 7-Year-Old Son Confesses

(FORT WORTH, Texas) — Prosecutors dropped a capital murder charge against a Texas man accused in the death of his 2-year-old daughter after investigators learned her then-5-year-old brother said he caused her death, authorities said Thursday.

Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, was accused of smothering his daughter, Ellie Mae, at their home in the Fort Worth suburb of Watauga in 2015.