Trung Tran to appear in Oneida County Circuit Court today

STAR JOURNAL REPORT

Trung T. Tran

Oneida County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested the husband of Ellen Tran, the Rhinelander-area woman charged in the April death of her 20-month-old stepson, Avery Edwards.

Trung T. Tran, 40, was arrested Sept. 19 for intentionally neglecting a child, causing death, and physical abuse of a child – failure to prevent bodily harm to child. He is scheduled to appear in Oneida County Circuit Court today at 1:15 p.m.

On April 14, Oneida County dispatch received a 911 call of a 20-month-old child with shallow breathing. Deputies and medics responded to the residence and the child was transported to a local hospital and then flown to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, where he died a short time later.

Ellen Tran, charged with first-degree reckless homicide, remains free on a $50,000 cash bond.