OGDEN — A man arrested this month in the 2016 death of a Roy toddler planned to shoot police if they ever came to get him, authorities say in charging documents.

Roy police and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Violent Fugitive Apprehension Team arrested Jordan Koji Sasaki, 27, on Jan. 12 in Salt Lake County. Roy police said he tried to get away by car and crashed into a marshals’ vehicle, but then was arrested without further resistance.

The Weber County Attorney’s Office charged Sasaki with first-degree felony aggravated murder and second-degree felony obstructing justice in the death of 22-month-old Genesis McCall, who died Oct. 10, 2016.

In documents unsealed in 2nd District Court after Sasaki was arrested, police said they had been told by Sasaki’s ex-wife and two subsequent girlfriends that he had confessed to killing the child. The ex-wife said Sasaki told her he changed out of bloody shorts before police first interviewed him about the death.

Further, according to a police probable cause statement, “Jordan has made several statements to all three females that if police try to make contact with him, he will shoot it out with police.”

One of the girlfriends provided a text message thread in which Sasaki allegedly asked her if she had gone to the police about him. “Please tell me so I can run and at least be free,” one text said. “I’m so tired of looking over my shoulder.”

A police officer also said in the arrest affidavit that he had seen “multiple social media posts of Jordan practicing a quick draw from concealed carry, shooting at objects, and multiple firearms.”

Police said they finally were able to document sufficient probable cause to arrest Sasaki based on forensic evidence and sworn statements of people with information about the death.

The probable cause statement also detailed doctors’ descriptions of the child’s injuries. Doctors at Primary Children’s Medical Center told law enforcement that Genesis was brain dead, having suffered significant inflicted injuries, including swelling and bleeding in the brain, detached retinas, head and facial bruises and strangulation marks on her neck. The child also had extensive bruises on her buttocks, scrapes and swollen genitalia.

After life support was withdrawn and the child died, a state medical examiner’s autopsy report said Genesis died of homicide due to multiple blunt force injuries to her head, neck and torso.

Investigators said Sasaki told them Genesis had fallen the day before but that he did not notice any injuries. The child’s mother was at work when authorities were called.

Sasaki is held without bail in the Weber County Jail. He made an initial court appearance last week and told the court he plans to hire his own defense counsel.

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