Beauregard Parish Sheriff Ricky Moses says a 25-year-old DeRidder man is accused of stabbing his 4-year-old nephew to death.
Chief Deputy Joe Toler says John W. Hatfield III was booked late Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder.
The sheriff says in a news release that Hatfield was arrested without incident at the home where the child was stabbed in the chest Tuesday afternoon.
He says the boy was flown to a hospital but was dead when he arrived.