ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — When the little boy swung the yardstick up and down, repeatedly striking the chest of the officer on the ground, police say they knew the 6-year-old child had killed his 3-year-old brother.

"I've been a police officer for 25 years, and I've seen nothing like this in my career," Rochester Police Chief Robert Duffy said Thursday, a day after the 6-year-old re-enacted the beating.

According to police, the 3-year-old threw a stone at his older brother, who retaliated by throwing a brick and repeatedly striking the child with a wooden baseball bat.

After the beating, the toddler returned home but became lethargic and fell asleep on the sofa. He was found dead in bed the next morning.

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The toddler died of blunt trauma to the abdomen, which caused internal bleeding, according to the medical examiner's report.

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