The mother of 6-year-old Max Shacknai believes her son was slain inside his millionaire father’s Coronado, Calif., mansion last summer and wants police to find out who did it.
“He was a victim of assault and a victim of homicide,” Dina Shacknai told NBC News on Thursday. “Even though nothing will bring my only child Maxie back, I owe it to him, as his mother, to make sure the true facts of his death are known.”
Dina Shacknai is at odds with the conclusion of Coronado police, who have called Max’s death a tragic accident. Police say the boy fell over a railing and tumbled down the stairs at his father’s historic John D. Spreckels mansion on July 11, 2011. He struck the carpeted floor face first, fracturing his forehead, police said. He was not breathing and did not have a pulse when paramedics found him.
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