JOPLIN, Mo. – A Joplin toddler has died, and a man suspected of abusing the boy has been arrested.

Joplin police said in a statement that 3-year-old Jonathan Munoz-Bilbrey was pronounced dead around 2:45 p.m. Sunday at a hospital in Kansas City. The Joplin Globe reports that the toddler had been transported there with life-threatening injuries on Saturday.

Police arrested Lenard Valdez, 21,  over the weekend in Kansas City on suspicion of abusing the boy at a Joplin apartment. An autopsy is planned.

-The Associated Press Contributed to this report.