Robert Robertson
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Officers from the Palestine Police Department responded.
When they saw how serious Nikki's condition was, they alerted their boss, Detective Brian Wharton.
The detectives saw Robert in the waiting room.
Nikki's grandparents were now there, too.
Do you remember the feeling of...
When you got eyes on Nikki?
Was the injury then obvious to you?
Wharton also saw bruising on Nikki.
He started asking Robert questions.
Robert was telling you that she had fallen, right?
Robert said he'd been home alone with Nikki.
A strange cry woke him up at about 5 a.m.
He found Nikki on the floor.
Robert said he kept her awake for a couple of hours, tried to comfort her.
Then they both went back to sleep.
At about 9 a.m., he said his alarm went off.
That's when he discovered Nikki was blue and didn't seem to be breathing.
Detective Wharton was suspicious of Robert's story.
He asked him to take him to his house to walk through what happened.